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Aaron Zelaya

South Houston,Tx

Summary

Focused welder skilled at welding and fitting pipes, flanges and couplings. Fast learner with results-driven nature. Cooperative working in teams for construction and heavy machinery installation.

Focused welder skilled at welding and fitting pipes, flanges and couplings. Fast learner with results-driven nature. Cooperative working in teams for construction and heavy machinery installation.

Talented Welder with 10 years and extensive background in MIG/TIG, flux and stick welding. Expert at crane operation and metal fabrication. OSHA certified with excellent safety record.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Tank Welder/ Fabricator

Ics
Grand Forks, ND
04.2022 - Current
  • Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
  • Removed and repaired unacceptable welds with air arc and grinder to meet quality guidelines.
  • Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bent and bolted component parts to achieve required configurations and positions.
  • Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications.
  • Operated hoists, cranes and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
  • Prepared welding equipment to perform advanced welding work.
  • Demo out roof of tank sheet metal and supports using plasma and acetylene torches
  • Chipped off excess weld, slag and spatter using hand tools.
  • Draw out new lines and figure out new support frame for roof and walls
  • Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
  • Minimized warping using good fitting, burning and welding techniques.
  • Completed welding projects using gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc and shielded metal arc equipment.
  • Set up and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  • Repaired manufactured products by dismantling, straitening, reshaping and reassembling parts.
  • Managed repair and maintenance schedule to organize shop and maintain equipment.
  • Assembled structural forms such as boiler parts and pressure vessels.
  • Demo out old tank using acetylene and plasma torches. Tacked on picking eyes to old metal that was taken out and rigged up to then be lowered to ground using chain falls come along or crane.
  • Take measurements and clean new area with grinders draw out new chalk lines of dimensions of new tank and location.
  • Fabricate or find new steel to be erected for supporting of tank ands roof. Use forklift from lay down yard to find pieces of metal and take to crane to be rigged and erected using hand signals and set in place and fitted to be welded
  • Weld fluxcore and stic for pipe inside tank and fluxcore for walls.

Welder

Ipec
Omaha, NE
10.2021 - 10.2022
  • Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
  • Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bent and bolted component parts to achieve required configurations and positions.
  • Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
  • Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications.
  • Operated hoists, cranes and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
  • Chipped off excess weld, slag and spatter using hand tools.
  • Clean kilm tank wall and structure using geindwrs and torches weld stainless walls and plates back on

Tank Welder

Ics
Grand Forks , ND
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • Demo out old tank roof and re fabricated new supports and structure using acetylene and plasma torch and gouger. Prefabricate new walls and supports for roof out of stainless metal welded everything back together using stic and wire feed process welding.

Welder

F.r.e.e. Inc
Conroe, Texas
07.2018 - 04.2020
  • Welded and fitted together small tanks to blueprint. Vessels would transport chemicals and gasses.
  • Grind clean new galvanized metal to be properly welded together

Tank Welder Helper

Sti Group
Buna , TX
05.2016 - 08.2018
  • I read blueprints and fabricated pieces that were missing and pieces that had been improperly fitted such as bolt holes or gussets or clips.
  • Maintained equipment in good working order.
  • Kept positive attitude focused on learning new processes and techniques.
  • Fetched materials, equipment and tools for welding professionals.
  • Welded critical fluxcore welds

Education

Diploma -

Marquee Learning Center
Houston, TX
05.2013

Skills

  • Heavy equipment operator
  • Jlg and forklift certified
  • Nccer certs for welding multiple process
  • Blueprint reading
  • Structural fitting of tank supports and structure where tank is in place
  • Msha certified 24 hour
  • Osha 10
  • Straightedge Measurements
  • Vertical Welding
  • Filler Rod Selection
  • Power Tools Operations
  • Welding Techniques
  • Mathematical Calculations
  • Gas Flow Adjustments
  • Overhead Welding Position
  • Flux Selection
  • Defective Material Identification
  • Edge Joining
  • Valve Repairs
  • Wire Feed Machines
  • Machinery Transporting
  • TIG Welding Expertise
  • Flux Core (FCAW) Welding
  • Welding and Bolting
  • Safe Work Practices
  • Design Interpretation
  • Heavy Duty Machinery
  • Stairs and Railings
  • Engineering Drawings Analysis
  • Sheet Metal Fabrication
  • Material Tagging
  • Parts Reassembling
  • Structure Erection
  • Instrumentation and Controls
  • Fabrication Experience
  • Heavy Metals
  • Plasma Cutter
  • ISO Quality Standards
  • Custom Fabrication
  • Fabrications Knowledge
  • Apprentice Supervision
  • Structural Supports
  • Metal Shaping Machines
  • Pipefitting
  • Nccer credentials

Certification

  • welder Training - 9 months
  • Nccer accredited school and everyday Hanson training till certified to nccer code of quality

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
French
Limited Working

Timeline

Tank Welder/ Fabricator

Ics
04.2022 - Current

Welder

Ipec
10.2021 - 10.2022

Tank Welder

Ics
03.2020 - 10.2021

Welder

F.r.e.e. Inc
07.2018 - 04.2020

Tank Welder Helper

Sti Group
05.2016 - 08.2018

Diploma -

Marquee Learning Center

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