Welder - Killeen

Do you want to work for a stable, growing organization that reaches back more than 130 years?  Our steel tube and pipe products have helped build landmarks and buildings in North America; Come build your career at Zekelman Industries! 

JOB SUMMARY

Under limited supervision, performs various welding duties throughout the plant.  

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads and promotes healthy and safe work practices as required by regulatory agencies and Company policy.
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operates safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Examines workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Welds separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds, or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Determines required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Operates 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.
• Analyzes more complex engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Marks or tags material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Removes rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Develops templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Positions and secures workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Operates metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
• Sets up and uses ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Uses fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Estimates materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintains required stocks of materials.
• Performs daily crane/mobile equipment inspections.
• Regular, full-time predictable onsite attendance is an essential function of this role.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

• Highschool Diploma / GED
• Legally eligible to work in the United States 
• 2-3 year manufacturing experience

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / COMPETENCIES

• Ability to follow and implement safety and quality control programs
• Ability to move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue. Constant movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity, coordination and stamina.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for several hours
• Ability to lift, climb, bend, stoop, push and pull
• Ability to lift 60lbs.
• Ability to stand for 10-12 hours
• Ability to perform work in a plant/manufacturing environment
• Other physical requirements as needed for job

Zekelman Industries offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits, including low-cost, high-quality medical and dental benefits.  In addition, we have an amazing tuition assistance program, a bonus plan, a 401(k) plan with a generous company match, immediate vesting, and much more.

M/F/D/V

We are Zekelman Industries.

We manufacture superior quality tubular and related products, and provide outstanding service for our valued customers.

We seek to continuously advance the skills and opportunities of our employees, utilizing the latest technology and management tools available to consistently increase profitability and the enterprise value of Zekelman Industries and of our customers.

We are Zekelman Industries.

We manufacture superior quality tubular and related products and provide outstanding service for our valued customers.

We seek to continuously advance the skills and opportunities of our employees, utilizing the latest technology and management tools available to consistently increase profitability and the enterprise value of Zekelman Industries and of our customers.

Zekelman is an Equal Opportunity Employer compliant with all Ontario law & Human Rights Code in providing accommodation to persons with disabilities and to ensuring an accessible environment. Zekelman will accommodate persons with disabilities during the recruitment and assessment processes and persons with disabilities will be accommodated on hiring and during employment. Should you require accommodation, please do not hesitate to request it.