Welder
Competency-based
ONET: 51-4121.06
3
Years
33
Skills
Classroom instruction topics
- College Student Success
- Cutting Processes
- SMAW (Stick) Plate
- Oxy-fuel Welding
- SMAW (Stick) Plate/Pipe
- Basic PC Literacy
- GTAW (TIG) Plate
- Symbols and Specs
- Introduction to Communication
- GMAW (MIG) FCAW/Plate
- Fabrication I
- Math & Measurement Literacy
On-the-job training
- Shielded Metal Arc Welding
- Machine settings, polarity uses, voltage, amperages, cable size selection
- Electrodes identification and Uses
- American Welding Society number system - coating flux analysis
- Actual welding time experience: Manual horizontal welding
- Actual welding time experience: Manual vertical up and down welding
- Actual welding time experience: Manual overhead welding
- Actual welding time experience: Manual pipe welding all positions
- Actual welding time experience: Hardfacing electrodes
- Gas Metal Arc Welding
- Machine settings, polarity uses, voltage, amperage, slope and inductance uses
- Short arc, spray arc, pulse arc uses and selections
- Uses and selection of shielding gases
- Selection of alloy wires, solid and tubular, and flux cored
- Hardfacing wires
- Actual welding time experience
- Submerged Arc Welding
- Machine settings, polarity uses, voltage, amperage, slope and inductance uses
- Granular and agglomerated fluxes and their uses and selections
- Operation of flux recovery and processing equipment
- Care and operation of solid state electrical systems in submerged arc welding console and welding positioner
- Selection of solid wires and tubular wires and their uses
- Actual welding time and experience
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
- Machine settings, polarity uses, voltage amperage, high frequency uses and gas functions and selection
- Selection of shielding gases, and their effecton various metals and alloys
- Actual welding time experience
- Oxygen Acetylene Cutting and Welding
- Selection of equipment and gas regulation,cylinder manifolding, pressure settings
- Cylinder gas handling and physics of gases
- "Safety in Welding and Cutting" (AWS handbook)
- Actual time and experience torch cutting,torch welding of steels, brazing and fusion welding, machine torch cutting, hardface weldclading and powder spray torch fusewelding
- Metalizing, Fused Metalizing Coatings and ARC-Spray Metalizing
- Setting up equipment and preparation of parts tobe processed
- Selection and identification of materials in wire form, powdered alloy form
- Machine settings and operations
- Actual time and experience
- Electrical Pratices
- Maintenance and repair of electric welding power source units
- Basic wiring of primary electric current
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