Summary
The Field Welder is responsible for quality alignment, fit, and welding parts of metal products for
structural and erecting purposes.
Reporting Relationship
DIRECT SUPERVISOR: Field Foreman
Qualifications
- This candidate should have a high school education.
- This candidate should be CWB certified or approved apprenticeship.
- This candidate should possess a valid driver license; a valid DZ license is preferred.
- This candidate should have own means of transportation.
Experience
- Candidate must have at least five (5) years previous work-related skill, knowledge and/or
experience.
Skills
- Candidate must have strong initiative, be self-motivated, and be goal oriented.
- Candidate must possess solid understanding of welding equipment and welding accessories.
- Candidate must be able to read and interpret prints/shop drawings, welding process
specifications and welding symbols. - Candidate must be able to work at heights and be certified to the Ministry of Labour’s standard.
- Candidate must have strong verbal communication skills.
- Candidate must be detail-oriented with watchful oversight.
- Candidate must possess outstanding organizational skills.
- Candidate must be able to multi-task.
- Candidate must be a contributing team member.
Knowledge
- Candidate should be able to read, and understand architectural drawings, as well as detail design
drawings. - Candidate must have knowledge of and understand the industrial manufacturing process.
- Candidate must be proficient in basic mathematic skills.
Abilities
- Candidate must be able to work with minimal supervision.
- Candidate must be willing to travel to work locations (out of town work).
- Candidate must be able to operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal
segments using processes. - Candidate must have the ability to weld in all positions with good penetration and quality.
- Candidate must be able to read a tape measure, pressure gauge, level and square.
- Candidate must be able to troubleshoot and repair issues which can occur in field work.
- Candidate must have the ability and willingness to follow direction, as well as the ability to work
independently. - Candidate must be fluent in English. The abilities to speak, read, and write any other languages
are preferred.
** A welding test may be administered as part of the application process.
Physical Demands
- We make reasonable accommodations to empower individuals with special needs to undertake
the essential duties and responsibilities of the position. While undertaking the essential duties
and responsibilities of the position, the candidate must speak and listen, brace or balance, walk,
sit, bend, stoop, or kneel. - The candidate must repeatedly use arms, hands or feet to grip, hold, reach or push.
- The candidate must be able to lift 50 pounds.
- The candidate will be required to wear personal protective equipment on a daily basis, including
but not limited to safety glasses, steel-toe boots, fall protection equipment, hearing protection,
work gloves and respiratory protection.
Environmental Conditions
- Working at Heights.
- Humidity levels may be elevated during summer months.
- Exposure to certain contaminants, at times.
- Exposure to loud noise levels, at times.
Accountability
- Continuously improve Field productivity.
- Continuously improve quality and strive for “zero” scrap and re-work expenses.
Responsibility
- Receive information – read prints, shop drawings, specifications.
- Communicate with Supervisors and peers; maintain respectful relationships.
- Maintain good relations with customers, vendors, sub-contractors, and other employees.
Essential Duties & Tasks
- Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following shop drawings
and layout specifications, using jigs, welding torches and hand tools. - Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
- Tack-weld fitted parts together.
- Layout and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are
met. - Lift or move materials and finished products, using mechanical assistance (e.g. cranes, chain
block, lift truck, etc). - Operate tools, such as flame cutters, grinders, and drills to bend, cut, form, punch, drill or
otherwise form and assemble metal components. - Heat-treat, using acetylene torches.
- Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
- Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
- Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, etc.
- Mark reference paint onto floors, or face blocks and transpose them to workpieces using
measuring devices, squares, chalk, and/or soapstone. - Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
- Maintain company welding and fabricating equipment.
- Participate in on-the-job skill training, as needed.
- Ensure clean and organized work space.
- Attend and participate in shop safety meetings.
- Fill out Time Sheets.
- Report all hazards.
- Follow company policies and procedures.
- Project a positive company image.
- Perform any other duties or tasks assigned by the President.
Measures of Performance
- Attendance
- Quality of Work performed
- Adherence to company policies and procedures
Job Description Review
Jobs are dynamic and change over time. To meet the priorities and requirements of this organization, management reserves the right to review this job description as follows:
- When the responsibilities of a position have changed;
- Where an organizational change has occurred;
- If there are changes in the working conditions or technology;
- Annually, to ensure that job duties are still applicable.