Welder/Fitter

Overhead LED lights throughout the workspace create a bright workspace for employees to safely perform their work. Lays out, positions, and secures parts and fabricates material according to specifications, using straightedge, combination square, calipers, and ruler.

Monday -Friday
1 hour of OT is built into the shift. If there is OT will work on Saturday.
1 ^st Shift 6:00am -3:30pm
2 ^nd Shift 3:30pm-12am

Responsibilities:
The primary goal is satisfying customer requirements of quality, quantity, and delivery, in a safe manner, while maximizing productivity. Specifically, the Welder / Fitter I is responsible for all job activities required to support production processes. These activities include but are not limited to: fitting/adjusting parts, tacking, and MIG welding steel. The employee is responsible for visually inspecting parts.

Other responsibilities

• Lays out, positions, and secures parts and fabricates material according to specifications, using straightedge, combination square, calipers, and ruler
• Tack-welds or welds components and projects.
• May be subject to using powered saws, torches, and hand plasma
• Prepares and finishes workpiece, using a portable grinder, or scraper
• Welds components in all positions
• Set up welding equipment
• Ensure welds meet standards and specifications
• Perform precision layout tasks and precisely fit together with their structural parts and components
• Read/work to engineered drawings and welding symbols
• Perform shop mathematical calculations
• Follows all plant safety guidelines, practices, and procedures. Also, be aware of activity in the work surroundings and maintain a clean and safe work area
• Properly use personal protective equipment when required
• Maintain regular attendance have reliable means of transportation
• Perform other tasks as assigned

Qualifications:
Prior manufacturing experience is highly preferred. Any technical or vocational education/training in relation to the skills listed below is also desirable.

• Must have the ability to pass a AWS D.1.1 3G vertical metal core pulse transfer weld qualification
• Must have intermediate blueprint reading knowledge
• Knowledge of machine operation, cutting, sawing, drilling, and grinding parts is desirable
• Ability to use welding tools
• Forklifts and Overhead crane experience preferred (in-house training available)
• Team player - must be able to work with others
• Must have and maintain a high sense of urgency to meet and exceed all production goals
• Attentive to detail watching for material defects and any quality issues
• Physically capable of standing, walking, bending, pushing, pulling, reaching, and twisting throughout shift
• Capable of repetitively lifting 25-50 lbs.
• Candidates must be flexible to work overtime as needed, which may include weekends and/or holidays
• Must be able to pass a background check and pre-employment drug test.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a typical manufacturing environment with overhead cranes and forklifts.
• Overhead LED lights throughout the workspace create a bright workspace for employees to safely perform their work.
• A normally clean work environment where the process creates some grinding dust, heat/cold, fumes/odors, and vibration. Housekeeping is performed as needed throughout the day and at the end of each shift.
• The noise level in the work environment is normal for manufacturing processes with air tools, grinders, and other tools. Yearly audiometric testing is provided by the company to monitor areas for improvement.
• In a non-climate-controlled facility in the summer, each work area is provided with fans to help keep cool. In the winter it is heated.

Required Equipment
Steel Toe Shoes/Boots
Basic tools
Gloves, jackets, and sleeves supplied (can use personal equipment)

Nesco Resource offers a comprehensive benefits package for our associates, which includes a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.

Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.