Michael Dobish Jr.

I am a fitter/welder here for 17+ years. We make liquid helium vacuum jacketed pressure vessels. I insulate, fit and weld, helium leak check, pressure check. We do a lot of x-ray tig welding on small pipe. Flux core. Aluminum welding.

Started as a forklift operator, then became the 100 ton crane operator. I wanted to become fitter/welder and they sent me to WTTI to learn how to weld. I worked 10 hour days and went to school at night for 6 months. We built almost everything to run a cement plant, I've welded flux core, solid wire, sub arc, air arc, and oxy acetylene hand burned, plasma cut. I can weld any process. F.l. Schmidt closed out shop and BVI took over and we built all kinds of different things, heat exchangers, maintenance decks for under bridges. I really enjoyed working there but I had a feeling it was gonna close and I applied at Gardner cryogenics a division of air products.

Ran tests to make sure quality cement was being made.

Labor gang, loaded tires, ran bobcat, anything needed.