**Location: **Bloomfield, CT 06002 | Onsite
**Type & Duration: **04 Months | Contract
**Shift: **1st Shift & 2nd Shift
**Job Description:
**The main function of a welder is to set-up, operate or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines.
**Job Responsibilities:
**• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments.
• Monitor the fitting, burning and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion or expansion of material.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• 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.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
**Skills:
**• Verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Basic knowledge of welding processes, such as gas metal arc, plasma arc, and resistance welding.
• Basic knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance.
• Basic knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.
**Education/Experience:
**• High school diploma or GED required.
• 2-4 years of experience
• Formal welding training in vocational or trade school preferred.
You should be proficient in:
Machines & technologies you'll use: