Welder

Common tasks

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.

Most important skills

Quality Control Analysis

Testing how well a product or service works.

Monitoring

Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

Judgment and Decision Making

Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

Critical Thinking

Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

Time Management

Managing your time and the time of other people.

Operations Monitoring

Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

Active Listening

Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

Operation and Control

Using equipment or systems.