Welding Specialist

Job description / Role

MIG welder // TIG welder
• Analyze engineering drawings, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Cut metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions, and contour and bevel as specified by drawings. layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials, and notify supervisors.
• Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
• Gouge metals using the air-arc gouging process.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Mark and/or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas metal arc welding [ MIG welding]
• Operate safety equipment, and use safe work habits.
• Position and secure work pieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• 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.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications, or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Weld separately or in combination, using stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Analyze engineering drawings, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Mark and/or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.

Requirements

• Two year certification course from reputed institution
• Certified welder
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc welding GTAW [ TIG welding]
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications, or types and thickness of metals.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Weld separately or in combination, using stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.

About the Company

AFI (Alaa For Industry) is a leading industrial supplies company in the Middle East, we supply customers with high-quality engineering products and services for hydraulics, pneumatics, transportation, power transmission and industrial equipment, when and where they need it.

Our expanding distribution network, broad product line and delivery options help customers save time and money. We work with customers to drive results for their businesses, from keeping operations running efficiently today to continuously rethinking, retooling and optimizing for a more productive tomorrow.