Welder - Hiring Now Job at ZipRecruiter in National City

Overview

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc., is currently seeking a full-time Welder III in City, CA.

Responsibilities

• Provides welding support certified in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG), Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) and Gas Metal Arc Welding Pulse (GMAW-P) using 5356 filler wire.
• Uses hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.
• Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, carbon arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, submerged arc welding and pipe welding.
• Ensures shop safety and housekeeping are followed.
• Ensures all materials and equipment are properly and safely stored, protected, and maintained.
• Reports the status and progress of all work to the government supervisor.
• Alerts the government supervisor of the causes of work delays.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating, warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examines work pieces for defects and measures work pieces with straight edges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
• Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Performs welding methods using a mirror.
• Provides mentoring to junior craftsman.
• Performs work outside of trade if necessary.

Required Qualifications

• High School/GED with Apprenticeship Diploma and additional vocational courses or technical school graduate; and/or military and/or civilian experience with welding operations in a repair department or shipyard or fabrication shop.
• 5 years' experience as a welder.
• Qualifies as a Welder/Workmanship Inspector in accordance with Epsilon Systems' Ship Repair Sector Work Instructions and welding procedures.
• Must be able to understand and perform the basic setup, adjustment, and operation of various welding equipment and hand tools used in the trade.
• Must be qualified in a minimum of 15 welding/brazing processes to include flux core welding.
• Ability to obtain and maintain access to military and government installations and private shipyards.
• Ability to communicate effectively, work independently or in a group.
• Ability to do basic math, i.e. add, subtract, divide and multiply.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.

Additional Qualifications

• Production welder experience while in the Navy or working as a civilian production welder supporting Navy ship repair or new construction.
• Completion of a formal course of vocational or Navy welding training and certification.
• Familiar with the requirements of NAVSEA Technical publications 248, 278 and 2035.

Pay Range

• The pay range for this role is $24.00 to $36.00 per hour. Salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity, and candidate qualifications such as skills, education and experience.

ADA Notifications

• Requires walking, reaching, sitting and concentration in the presence of occasional and loud noises.
• Able to move in narrow and restricted passageways, up/down steep and narrow ladders or stairways, and up and down antenna masts/yardarms (onboard ships).
• Able to lift, carry and move objects up to 50 lbs.
• Must have manual and finger dexterity; able to grasp, manipulate, assemble small objects.
• Able to move hands/arms quickly to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Able to perceive and distinguish normal range of colors.

• May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including hard hat, safety glasses/goggles, ear plugs/muffs, masks/respirators, safety vests, gloves and steel-toe boots.

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.