welder apprentice - Mount Forest, Canada - CANMEX WELDING INC.

Description

• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
• or equivalent experience

Work site environment

• Dusty
• Noisy
• Dirty

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
• 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
• Start up, shut down, adjust and monitor robotic welding production line
• Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment
• Sort metal sheets and parts, scrap metal and other materials
• Operate metal cleaning equipment to remove excess welds, rust, scale and other materials from surfaces of metal products
• Assist structural steel and platework fitters, sheet metal workers, metal machine operators or other metal workers
• Grind or chip excess metal from metal products using hand tools

Equipment and machinery experience

• Arc welding machine
• Gas welding machine

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week