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0-5 years of experience
Conducted Tig welding on exhaust pipes for off road vehicles using: steel, stainless steel, titanium and have recently started working with aluminum.
- Trained in using various hand and electric tools such as arch welder, grinders, buffing machine.
- Practiced on Mig welding when assigned Tig projects were completed.
- Arranged and organized Tig welding equipment prior to and at the end of each working day.
- Inspected completed work products for any defects.
- Familiarity with interpreting blueprints and welding codes.
- Clamped, measured and aligned metal parts prior to welding
- Repaired work pieces by dismantling, reshaping, straightening and reassembling parts
0-5 years of experience
Read and interpret blueprints, work instructions, technique sheets, and work order routers in order to clean, fit, tack, and weld various materials for use in cabin pressurization and fuel control systems used in aerospace industry. Maintain weld certification on 0.032″ aluminum, stainless steel, inconel, and titanium groove and fillet welds per AWS D17.1. All welds must pass radiographic and bend testing as well as fluid penetrant and visual inspection.
- Promoted from Tig Welder Level II to Level III after only 3 months experience
- Received certification for visual weld inspection
- Responsible for testing various ducting assemblies by pressurizing components and submerging under water to test welds
- Spent 2 months operating Mazak and Okuma CNC two spindle lathes
- Responsible for maintaining acceptable safety and 5s scores for welding and fabrication department as well as reporting potential problem areas to upper management
- Participated in 8-D troubleshooting teams to address recurring issues with fabrication of ducting
- Worked with manufacturing engineers to fix issues with damaged ducts due to heat treat equipment as well as material handling
- Certified forklift operator (stand up or sit down)
6-10 years of experience
Estimate, Quote, Interact with sales to produce a cost effective and quality product.
- Utilize AutoCad, AutoCad Inventor to develop working models / drawings for shop production.
- Utilize Multi-punch software to program Strippit turret punches to produce dimensionally correct parts.
- Train new Tig welders to produce welds that were in accordance with company standards.
- Oversee programs, maintenance and product for robotic welding cells, Panasonic and Fanuc.
- Oversee production and quality control of all, custom fabrication.
0-5 years of experience
Welding repair of super alloys cast components, stainless steel/haste-alloy-x sheet metal and fabrication of new tooling and fixtures.
- Proficient in pre-heating & post-heating weld elements.
- Safely operates any gas or non-gas welding device.
- Well versed with basic machining tools, micrometers, dial calipers, height & depth gauges.
- Firm grasp of welding vocabulary and shop machinery operation. Working knowledge of welding in all positions and different rods.
0-5 years of experience
Performed Tig welding process of metal expansion joints (bellows, flanges, weld ends) in accordance with Expansion Joint Manufacturers Association (EJMA)
- Ensured that the welds were clean, error free, tack secure in accordance with ASME boiler and pressure vessel code including a “U” stamp.
- Used math and measurement skills, including use of tape measure, calipers, squares, levels and clamps.
- Able to operate air power tools (grinders, sanders) and typical shop equipment for welding jobs.
- Able to read and interpret blueprints.
- Worked well with others with minimal supervision.
0-5 years of experience
2ND Shift lead welder/ supervisor for Seals Department
- TIG welding sheet metal to plate requiring precision accuracy as to not burn threw the sheet metal. Sheet metal thickness ranges from .018 to .030 of an inch.
- Use of pneumatic expanders to increase the radios of parts to create a snug fit to weld on.
- Bubble test all welds to positively identify any non-fused locations in the weld.
- All welding is being conducted by the use of a Turn Table.
0-5 years of experience
Materials welded: 304/316 Stainless, 400 Series (high carbon) SS, Aluminum, Carbon & Cold rolled steel, and stainless pipe.
- Processes used: TIG, MIG
- Metal thickness welded: 11g, 16g, 20g, and some 22gage sheet metal.
- Basic job responsibilities: assemble materials, according to blueprints. QC all fabricated parts, before assembly. Some fabrication of finished parts, as needed. Acid clean welds, and/or dip into acid solution, for cleaning.
0-5 years of experience
Works from blue prints, drawings and or technical manuals to produce a variety of items for shipping.
- Performs grinding and blending with a variety of pneumatic, electric and hand tools.
- Repairs sheets of metal or composite surfaces, distortion, corrosion and cracks.
- Conduct visual inspections and make necessary adjustment to conform to job specifications.
- Prepare and operate various welding machine equipment.
0-5 years of experience
Visually inspected fire truck ladders, stabilizers and frames for manufacturing and in service defects
- Performed leak detection on water tanks, foam tanks, and water pump piping systems
- Prepared and welded defective part in accordance with he applicable Welding Procedure
- Sheared and bended aluminum diamond plate sheet metal in close tolerance to fabricate boxes that are installed on fire trucks
0-5 years of experience
Contractor for a welding manufacturer that made customized kitchen equipment
- Reviewing the drawings, blueprints and/or work order to fabricate parts
- Performing 90% TIG Welding 10% MIG Welding producing kitchen tables, cabinets, overhead hoods for restaurants
- Welded stainless steel material staying within tolerances of 1/16 of an inch
- Performed quality control duties
0-5 years of experience
Tig & Mig welders, Spot welders, punch presses, Drill presses, grinders, and mills
- Assemble products identified and repairs broken parts and performs final finishing on products
- Troubleshoot problems in machines and analyze the problem and implement corrections
- Read and understand weld symbols, blueprints, details and print specification requirements
10+ years of experience
Responsibilities included: Using forklift to pull orders, working in the receiving and shipping department, picking, packing, and scanning orders using a palletizer and doing inventory.
- Safely and accurately calculate, build and assemble customer orders to prepare them for delivery, inner-yard transfer or customer pick-up. ” Will Call Orders”
- Carefully load materials for delivery onto trucks in cooperation with the truck drivers.
- Unload and stock incoming material from vendors.
- Other responsibilities include: Handling and organizing all materials to minimize damage, operating forklift equipment and performing routine maintenance during down time, safely and neatly maintaining storage areas, entry and exit points, and all high traffic avenues of the facilities to allow for unobstructed safe passage.
- Clamped, measured and aligned metal parts prior to welding.
- Inspected completed work product for any defects.
- Worked within precise limits or standards of accuracy
- Measuring, cutting materials. Arc/Stick welding, metal fabrication, and interpret drawings for new construction and repair of marine vessels to meet Naval and commercial standards.
- Responsible for the use of various tools and equipment in the fabrication, assemble and erection of metal parts.
- Responsible for maintaining deadlines
0-5 years of experience
Assigned to the engines products division of welding automation.
- Setup jet engine components onto welding fixtures and run the CNC controlled GTAW.
- Performed auto tig welding, stake bed welding and manual tig welding on titanium, PH nickel base and aluminum metals.
- Aviation weld repair on turbine fans blades and jet engine components.
6-10 years of experience
Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
- 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.
0-5 years of experience
- X-ray certified welder for 1/2″ to 4″ stainless steel
- X-ray certified welder for 1″ to 3″ hastalloy stainless steel.
- X-ray certified robotic welder.
- Certified hydro operator.
- Certified flange reface operator (flange machining).
0-5 years of experience
Lead Fabricator – Stainless Steel and Aluminum Tig Welder.
- S/S Table sink bowls.
- Reading blueprints, using calibers for precision measurements.
- Grinding & polishing Stainless
- Working alongside Engineers & Supervisors to determine the best way to weld & fabricate custom design projects.
- Experience with most welding shop machines: Plasma cutter, brake press, sheet metal shears, Drill press & Band saws.
- Assisting in Grinding Dept. and other shop workers.
6-10 years of experience
Tig, Mig, and Arc welding in all positions, on all types of steel
- Metal fabricator, and assembler
- Shop maintenance including sanding, grinding, and shaping materials
- Proficient at reading prints, and properly handling shop equipment
- Able to layout, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on thin/thick sheet metal
0-5 years of experience
Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits
- Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding
- Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders and material safety data sheets in order to plan, layout, assemble, and weld to specifications
- Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications
- Monitor the fitting, burning and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts that could cause warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits
- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors
0-5 years of experience
Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
- Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
- 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 the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
- Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
- Fabricate cooling towers for the aerospace and refinery’s industry. Field work required for maintenance and repairs on site
0-5 years of experience
MIG carbon steel and flux cored welder and fitter.
- TIG stainless steel welder and fitter.
- Experience interpreting blueprints
- Operated a CNC Burn Table, brakes, shears, vertical and horizontal band saws, overhead crane and forklift.
0-5 years of experience
Weld components in flat, vertical, and overhead positions.
- Position components in fixture, and use clamps to secure in place.
- Operate electric and propane powered forklifts.
- Use a variety of measuring tools to verify that weldments are within specifications.
0-5 years of experience
TIG welding and fabrication of stainless steel products of various gauges and dimensions for a private filtration company
- Ability to work in tight tolerances.
- Welding of light to heavy gauge steel
- Able to read and follow Blueprints
0-5 years of experience
Perform setups and welds for mgo and used various hand tools
- Extensive experience in reading blueprints and drawings
- Skilled as a certified Tig Welder and conduct mgo welds
- Operate lathe machine to remove sheath from mgo
- Use saws to cut mgo’s and conducted torch brazing
0-5 years of experience
Stainless steel TIG welding
- Aluminum TIG welding / Push Pull MIG welding
- Metal roll Plasma cutting operations
- In-house management of shop layout
- Consolidation, loading, and unloading of steel
- Forklift operator
- Proof-reading blueprints
- Jib crane operator
0-5 years of experience
- Performed welds on parts for the United States military.
- Certified by company to weld to military specifications.
- Certified in fundamentals of weld inspection. (Certificate available upon request.)
0-5 years of experience
T.V. and equipment mounts.
- Complete install and calibration of new Fanuc robotic weld cell.
- Robotic programming and production operations.
- Saw cutting and deburring
- Plasma cutting
- Familiar with LEAN manufacturing
- Certified forklift operator
0-5 years of experience
Track project status of various parts for production
- Adjust team allocation based on client demand
- Coordinate with management to ensure project time-line efficiency
- Manufacture fixtures or jigs for production from scratch
0-5 years of experience
Mig and Tig Tubing for Carrier (Carrier Certified)
- Mig Exhaust system parts for Mack and Volvo trucks
- Assisting fabrication department
- Moving fixtures with forklift (Forklift License)
- Reading blueprints
- Welding Carbon steel-Stick, Mig, and Tig
- Welding Stainless steel-Mig and Tig
- Welding Aluminum-Mig and some Tig
6-10 years of experience
- TIG welded stainless steel customized industrial kitchenware requiring NSF approval.
- TIG welded various pipe, stainless steel coldroll.
- Custom repairs using MIG, TIG, and stick.
- Manual plasma cutout, manual torch cutout.
- Finishing stainless steel.
- Reading industrial blueprints (identifying weld and cut symbols).
- Gave instruction and supervised on weld tests.
- Trained new employees on custom welding stainless steel.
- Repairs and installation roadwork.
- Shear operations.
0-5 years of experience
- Mig and tig welding carbon steel and stainless steel.
- Following blueprint drawing to check parts made.
- Operating multi machines like robots and plasma.
10+ years of experience
Specialized in Cryogenic Air separation & Refinery Services
- Expert in brazed aluminum plate/fin heat exchanger repairs
- ASME pressure vessels, API tanks ANSI piping
- Certified in ASME code
- ASME “U” & National Board “R” Certificates and Authorization
- Tube bundle heat exchangers
- Aluminum/Stainless /Alloys
- Work close with Code Inspector
- Pressure testing vessels
- X-RAY Welding
- Managed other employees
TIG Welder Duties and Responsibilities
TIG welders regularly perform a variety of tasks depending on their employer. We analyzed several online job postings to identify these core duties:
Read Blueprints TIG welders start all projects by reading and interpreting blueprints, technique sheets, and other specifications, which they must follow accurately. Afterwards, they can plan the procedure, calculating dimensions and preparing the appropriate materials.
Perform Welding It’s important for TIG welders to check the quality of all metal parts before assembling them for welding, cutting, or cleaning as necessary. Their welding technique relies on the use of a nonconsumable tungsten electrode, and they must maintain dimension, strength, and evenness of surface of the metal parts all throughout.
Observe Safety Procedures TIG welders must observe safety procedures at all times, staying up to date with ISO and FDA regulations and reporting any potential issues to management right away. They’re also in charge of keeping their equipment in excellent working condition and following a clean-up routine at the start and end of each workday.
Inspect Products For every product that TIG welders create, they conduct thorough inspections, visually examining it for obvious defects and subjecting it to radiographic and ultrasound testing, bubble testing, and other functionality tests. If the product fails any of these, welders document the error and withhold the product from release.
Fix Issues TIG welders fix products that are defective, whether from production flaws or long-term use. This often means dismantling its parts, reshaping or replacing them, and then fusing them back together. For larger, recurring issues that involve the manufacturing process, they work with a troubleshooting team to determine the best solution.
TIG Welder Skills and Qualifications
TIG welders excel at working with their hands and drawing on their knowledge of metallurgy to create safe and high-quality products. Although they specialize in TIG welding, they are also proficient with other welding techniques, such as MIG and arc welding. In addition to certification, employers look for TIG welders with the following skills:
- Welding – this is the core skill that all TIG welders must have. They should be knowledgeable about equipment, processes, and materials, and should have a practical proficiency in welding that comes from experience
- Reading blueprints and schematics – TIG welders act with minimal supervision and rely on blueprints and schematics for instructions, so it’s imperative for them to interpret these accurately
- Math skills – TIG welders should be comfortable with numbers, especially trigonometry, as they calculate dimensions based on blueprints and take measurements of materials
- Hand-eye coordination – welding is a heavily physical process that requires stamina and perfect hand-eye coordination, since timing, amount of heat, and other variables must be exact in order to yield a usable product
- Troubleshooting – TIG welders have a keen eye for details when inspecting products. They spot errors quickly, then analyze them to deduce the root cause and formulate an efficient solution
TIG Welder Education and Training
Employers focus more on technical experience rather than education when evaluating TIG welders. The minimum educational requirement for this role is a high school diploma or GED, but TIG welders need to undergo technical training, often through a formal program that lasts for less than a year, and then obtain welding certification by passing an accredited test. Two or more years of experience in welding or manufacturing is also an asset.
TIG Welder Salary and Outlook
According to PayScale, TIG welders earn a median hourly wage of $18.18. The lowest 10 percent of earners make less than $14 every hour, while the highest paid earn more than $25, resulting in a total yearly pay range of $28,000 to $64,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that jobs for welders, solderers, cutters, and brazers will increase 6 percent by 2026. This can be attributed to the increasing need for infrastructure maintenance as highways and buildings age.
Helpful Resources
We’ve put together the following list of resources to help you learn more about being a TIG welder:
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding: Welding Process Training Series – this book serves as an introduction to gas tungsten arc welding, which is more complex than other techniques. It supplements technical topics such as alternating current and polarity with full-color illustrations for an easier read
American Welding Society – the AWS is an international nonprofit organization for professionals and institutions involved in the welding industry. It features top certification programs, online courses, summits and conferences, and informative articles, and it’s also the creator of around 200 industry codes and guides
Welding Pocket Reference – this excellent reference guide offers easy access to essential welding information, including charts for arc-welding, US metric tables, and types of joints and welds
The Welder – TIG welders can subscribe to this publication for free. It’s sent bimonthly journals to professional welders in North America for more than 20 years
Farm and Workshop Welding: Everything You Need to Know to Weld, Cut, and Shape Metal – suitable for both beginner and intermediate welders, this book provides practical tips and step-by-step instructions for several types of welding. It also lists common mistakes and ways to correct them