Cody Payne

• Leveraged social media platforms and online job boards to advertise open positions and engage with potential candidates.
• Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
• Followed up with notable applicants sourced via industry-specific pipelines, events and job fairs.
• Planned and launched large-scale events that boosted employee participation by 50%.
• Set up weld test and pipefitter test for employment and trade school acception.

• Salvaged and rebuilt parts to achieve cost savings and reduce waste.
• Interpreted verbal and written instructions from work orders and welding blueprints.
• Fabricated shop parts directly from blueprints.
• Repaired manufactured products by dismantling, straitening, reshaping and reassembling parts.
• Used MIG gun arc to melt and deposit metal from electrode to workpieces.
• Removed and repaired unacceptable welds with air arc and grinder to meet quality guidelines.
• Operated hoists, cranes and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
• Observed hydrostatic and dimension tolerance tests to evaluate weld quality and conformance to specifications.
• Maintained correct arc length and movement speed to form specified fusion depth and bead.
• Welded parts using arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc and gas equipment.
• Conducted special welds with extremely low tolerances for industrial operations.
• Chipped off excess weld, slag and spatter using hand tools.
• Inspected welds and checked critical measurements to meet specifications.
• Set up and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Welded in flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.
• Completed welding projects using gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc and shielded metal arc equipment.

Welded on some of the brightest projects in Atlanta for last 20 years.Aquarium, CNN center, Nations Bank Building, Piedmont Hospital, The aquarium in Atl. And many more.

• Detected faulty operation of equipment and defective materials and promptly resolved issues.