Leonel Franco
Austin,TX
Summary
Highly skilled welder with extensive experience in pipe welding, fabrication, and blueprint interpretation. Proven ability to deliver high-quality welds while ensuring compliance with safety standards.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Combo Welder
Mitco fabrication and welding llc
Hartville, OH
01.2025 - 10.2025
- Fabricated metal components using MIG and TIG welding techniques.
- Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to determine project specifications.
- Operated welding equipment and tools to perform high-quality welds on various materials.
- Collaborated with team members to troubleshoot welding issues and improve processes.
- Conducted inspections of completed welds for quality assurance and adherence to standards.
Combination Pipe Welder
Upcon industrial piping llc
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
07.2024 - 12.2024
- Fabricated stainless steel components using advanced welding techniques.
- Operated welding equipment to ensure high-quality joints and finishes.
- Welded and worked with stainless steel and various alloys.
- Completed skilled welds on pressure-tested pipe in installations.
- Avoided errors by carefully reading blueprints and specifications to correctly lay out parts and plan welding processes.
Combination Welder
Lone star welding solutions
Lubbock, Texas
06.2022 - 09.2024
- Operated welding equipment for fabrication and assembly of metal structures.
- Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings for precise welding execution.
- Ensured compliance with safety standards during all welding processes.
Pipe Welder
Epic Piping
San Marcos, Texas
11.2021 - 05.2022
- Inspected welded joints for quality assurance and compliance with standards.
- Welded all kinds of stainless steel pipes including carbon steel pipes in different positions like flat position, horizontal position .
- Joined components with job-specific welding techniques.
- Determined equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry and welding techniques.
Combo Pipe Welder
silver beam stainless steel solutions
Austin, TX
02.2017 - 11.2021
- Produced consistently smooth, durable welds and quality-controlled finish work.
- Welded regularly in all positions and worked with metals such as stainless steel and various alloys.
- Monitored fitting, burning and welding processes to avoid overheating parts, warping, shrinking, distortion and expansion of materials.
- Adjusted weld machines to correct settings prior to weld applications for precision and waste reduction.
- Prevented distortion of parts by monitoring fitting, burning and welding processes.
- Handled all responsibilities for piping systems, including fabricating, assembling, installing and maintaining.
- Utilized hoists, cranes and other lifting devices when necessary for moving heavy objects around the shop floor safely.
- Conducted tests on finished products in order to ensure that they meet required standards.
Rail Car Mechanic
Watco Companies LLC
Coffeyville, KS
02.2016 - 02.2017
- Prepared accurate and complete inspection reports and work order paperwork to fulfill recordkeeping and regulatory requirements.
- Used pneumatic hoists and jacks, pinch bars and cutting torches to remove locomotives and car mechanical units.
- Completed accurate repairs by reading and interpreting technical documentation and job work orders.
- Defined strategies and created a plan to achieve ambitious operational objectives.
- Operated diagnostic equipment to identify faults in rail car systems.
- Coordinated with management to schedule preventive maintenance tasks efficiently.
Iron Pourer
Acme Foundry
Coffeyville, KS
05.2015 - 01.2016
- Read temperature gauges and observed color changes, adjusting furnace flames and torches as necessary to melt metal to specifications.
- Detected work-piece defects and machine malfunctions, maintaining apparatus to prevent future issues.
- Used ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings.
- Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.
- Received and processed written and verbal instructions, prints and work orders.
- Completed fast-paced work under tight deadlines by successfully operating a iron melting pot
Education
Field Kindley Memorial High School
Coffeyville, KSCombination Pipe Welding Degree - Combo Welder
Coffeyville Community College
Coffeyville, KS 01.2014 -
Skills
- Pipe welding
- Fabrication
- Experienced with pipefitting
- Conflict resolution
- Troubleshooting
- Piping specifications
- Specifications and blueprints
- Blueprint interpretation
- Metal fabrication
- Problem solving
- Carbon steel welding
- Fabrication techniques
- Plasma arc cutting
- Oxy-fuel cutting
- Pipefitting
- MIG welding
- TIG welding
- Aluminum welding
- Blueprint reading
- Structural welding
- Stainless steel welding
- Alloy Recognition
- Stick welding
Experience
["Pourers and Casters, Metal"],["Rail Car Repairers"],["Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters"]
Education and Training
other
Timeline
Combo Welder
Mitco fabrication and welding llc
01.2025 - 10.2025
Combination Pipe Welder
Upcon industrial piping llc
07.2024 - 12.2024
Combination Welder
Lone star welding solutions
06.2022 - 09.2024
Pipe Welder
Epic Piping
11.2021 - 05.2022
Combo Pipe Welder
silver beam stainless steel solutions
02.2017 - 11.2021
Rail Car Mechanic
Watco Companies LLC
02.2016 - 02.2017
Iron Pourer
Acme Foundry
05.2015 - 01.2016
Combination Pipe Welding Degree - Combo Welder
Coffeyville Community College
01.2014 -
Field Kindley Memorial High School