Job Title: Welder
Position Details: Hourly, Full Time
Department/Group: Main Shop
Shift: 1st Shift (Monday – Friday, 6:30am – 4:00pm)
Roles and Responsibilities
The Welder’s responsibilities include, but may not be limited to,
- Understand the safety features of the machines and tooling to ensure they are operating without compromise to safety systems.
- Follows safety protocol, including wearing heat resistant gloves, flame resistant (FR) clothing, protective masks, and safety toed footwear.
- Plans details of work order procedures; gathers required tools and materials based on instructions and specifications provided for the job.
- Assesses equipment, structures, materials, and job specifications for appropriate welding positions and methods.
- Ability to perform MIG welding activities to steel components
- Maintain welding fixtures and tooling in a suitable working order
- Visually inspect weld quality and use other quality inspection equipment to confirm compliance to part specifications.
- Maintains, organizes, and cleans equipment and work area
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Willingness to test and pass welder qualification test
- Thorough understanding of tools used in welding including designs, uses, maintenance and repair.
- Welding experience in a manufacturing environment
- Knowledge based and working background in MIG welding of carbon and stainless steel products
- Must be able to complete a manual welding test. Welds are judged on functionality and esthetics
- Must be able to perform accurate mathematical calculations (add, subtract, multiply and divide)
- Ability to work with fractions and decimals
- A work history of compliance to safety, quality, and productivity standards
- A work history that supports a good to excellent attendance record
- Strong mechanical abilities
- Fast learner and able to adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Detail oriented approach to daily work activities
- Able to work well in a team-oriented work environment
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn
Preferred Skills
- At least 2 years’ welding experience and able to perform MIG welding.
- Ability to read, interpret and understand Work Orders.
Physical Requirements
- Walking, Standing, Sitting Kneeling, Stooping (Frequently)
- Lifting, Carrying up to 50 pounds (Occasionally)
- Temperatures (Occasionally)
Additional Notes
- May require overtime with little notice before or after normal work hours or weekends.
“They’ve been good to me since I started here. When I first got here, I thought I knew how to weld, but between Jason, Aaron, and Chad, they taught me a lot.”
Phil Funchion
“There’s never a dull moment. There is always something to do and there’s never a time I was worried we wouldn’t have enough to do.”
Jason Fagerman
“Everybody is just so kind, and it’s a wonderful workplace. Everybody is just so helpful to each other. We’re a good team and I’m proud to be part of Swanton Welding”
Vickie Mohr
“There’s so much to learn, so much that can be learned, and there’s just a lot of opportunity to kind of grow as a person and as an employee yourself and to better yourself”
Derek Swartzlander
“Over the years at Swanton Welding, you become part of the family here.”
Nick Nijakowski
“Your Responsibilities grow as you are here so, there is a lot of room for advancement.”
Kody Kessler
“At Swanton Welding, I feel more like a person than a number. It’s a real tight-knit group.”
Axl Carpenter
“People look out for each other. They try to help out as much as they can. They try to point you in the right direction. They don’t want to see people fail.”
