Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

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.

Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.

Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.

Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.

Align and clamp workpieces together, using rules, squares, or hand tools, or position items in fixtures, jigs, or vises.

IBM Notes

Microsoft Outlook

Fred's Tip Cartridge Picker

Scientific Software Group Filter Drain FD

Value Analysis

Oracle Database

Recordkeeping software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Windows

EZ Pipe

OmniFleet Equipment Maintenance Management

Motorized cutting torches

Oxyacetylene torches

Pattern cutting torches

Propane torches

Drill presses

Portable magnetic drill presses

Punch presses

Oxyacetylene welding equipment

Rod ovens

Storage ovens and hot boxes

Underwater electrodes

Welding electrodes

Hydraulic truck lifts

Swing stages

Torch tips

Welding tips

Brazing equipment

Welding torches

Underwater electrode holders

Welding electrode holders

Ultrasonic soldering equipment

Ultrasonic welding equipment

Hand shields

Welding shields

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, & Brazers

Take courses in welding and make sure to get financial aid, it is easier to break into the field with a cert than with none at all

Typical day at work is a day filled with tasks, i build and design projects with the help of my superior and when i am not i am shipping out orders, talking to customers, and building other projects, a great deal of memorization is required aswell as patience.

Welder/aprentice

You will never make anything of your life, you cannot make it, you will be no one in your future

Arthur Ferrer

Welder / aprentice

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Anonymous Student

Arthur Ferrer

Welder / aprentice

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Design

Education

Accomplishing Goals

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Peers:

Interviewed By

Anonymous Student

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