Welder

• Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
• Langue de travail: Anglais
• Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
• Education:
• Expérience:

Education

• Other trades certificate or diploma
• Welding technology/welder
• or equivalent experience

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• At heights
• Confined spaces
• Dusty
• Hot
• Noisy
• Odours
• Dirty

Work setting

• Various locations
• Residential

Tasks

• Interpret welding process specifications
• Operate manual or semi-automatic, fully automated welding equipment
• Read and interpret welding blueprints, drawings specifications, manuals and processes
• Examine welds and ensure that they meet standards and/or specifications
• Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
• Operate brakes, shears and other metal shaping, straightening and bending machines
• Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
• Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
• Determine weldability of materials
• Operate hoisting and lifting equipment
• Operate previously set-up welding machines to fabricate or repair metal parts and products
• Operate previously set-up brazing or soldering machines to bond metal or to fill holes, indentations and seams of metal
• Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
• Welder Trade Red Seal Certificate

Type of materials

• Stainless steel
• Steel, iron and heavy metals

Welding techniques

• Resistance, spot or seam
• Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
• Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) (TIG)
• Gas metal arc welding (GMAW)
• Flux core arc welding (FCAW)
• Tubular
• Spool
• Keyhole
• Welding plastic
• Brazing and soldering

Equipment and machinery experience

• Arc welding machine
• Brazing machine
• Gas welding machine
• Soldering machine
• Spot welding machine

Area of specialization

• Custom fabrication
• Machinery or equipment repair
• Structural construction
• Factory assembly
• Cast iron and other metals
• Fencing, balconies, stairs and railings
• Process piping

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Sitting
• Standing for extended periods

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

• Tools
• Steel-toed safety boots
• Hard hat
• Safety glasses/goggles
• Safety harness
• Gloves
• Mask
• Face shield
• Welding helmet

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Flexibility
• Organized
• Team player
• Punctuality
• Hardworking
• Resourcefulness

Employment terms options

• Early morning
• Shift
• Flexible hours
• Morning

Experience

• 5 years or more

Employment terms options

• Night
• Day
• Weekend

Workplace information

• On the road job

Other benefits

• Free parking available