Welder Foreman
Northwest Structural Steel
Portland, OR
04.2015 - Current
- 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.
- Chipped off excess weld, slag and spatter using hand tools.
- Operated hoists, cranes and power tools to dismantle equipment to find and remove defective parts.
- Interpreted verbal and written instructions from work orders and welding blueprints.
- Welded parts using arc, gas-shielded arc, submerged arc and gas equipment.
- Set up and operated shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Repaired manufactured products by dismantling, straitening, reshaping and reassembling parts.
- Completed welding projects using arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc and shielded metal arc equipment.
- Used MIG gun arc to melt and deposit metal from electrode to workpieces.
- Removed rough spots from work pieces with portable grinders, hand files and scrapers.