Welder, Combination

Hour-based

ONET: 51-4121.06

Years

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On-the-job training

Operate safety equipment, and use safe work habits
Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations
Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuit
Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding
Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux- cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding
Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
Examine workpieces for defects, and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications
Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to welding
Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter
Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools

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