welder

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Interpret welding process specifications
• Operate manual or semi-automatic, fully automated welding equipment
• Read and interpret welding blueprints, drawings specifications, manuals and processes
• Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
• Operate brakes, shears and other metal shaping, straightening and bending machines
• Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
• Determine weldability of materials
• Operate previously set-up brazing or soldering machines to bond metal or to fill holes, indentations and seams of metal
• Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Welder Trade Red Seal Certificate

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Sitting

Personal suitability

• Flexibility
• Team player