Ascent Buildings has immediate openings for Welders in Portland, TN. Positions are for 1st and 2nd shifts. Starting pay is $22-$25/hr. You'll be paid every week.

Excellent Benefits:

• Benefits start on your first day

• 4 weeks paid time off (Vacation & Sick Days)

• 10 Paid Holidays each year

• Paid Weekly

Summary: To provide the highest quality product and ensure all products meet the specifications and quality requirements by performing the following functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills 
• Reading skills
• Previous metal structure exp. helpful
• 1 - 3 yrs. min. welding experience required

Education/Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent, technical school
• Welding certificate (will need pass AWS-1G test)
• Prior experience preferred
• Forklift and crane operation experience preferred

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.