Day Shift Welder

A good company is more than just the sum of its products.  Since 1949, we have focused on three principles: honesty, hard work, and giving customer the best product in the world-Orange Iron, the Ditch Witch brand. We provide opportunities for continued training and professional growth as well as competitive wages and top-notch benefits. 

This employee hand welds components used to build Ditch Witch equipment. This employee also assembles equipment and performs other duties as assigned. This is a Day Shift production welder opening.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Read information from blueprints, technical manuals or other documents.
• Set up fixtures, mount parts in fixtures, and perform mechanical assembly. This includes using hand and air tools such as wrenches, torque wrenches, impact wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, etc.
• Move and position parts -with a hoist and manually.
• Use a hoist to lift and position large, heavier components and completed weldments.
• Set up, adjust, and operate MIG welding equipment to weld machine components.
• Remove components from fixtures, clean and check them for quality, and correct errors or deficiencies of weldments.
• Use a computer to check the location, inventory, routing of parts, and to record inventory transactions.
• Through behavior and communication, maintain positive relationships with customers, clients, supervisors, and co-workers.
• Meet or exceed typical production, quality, attendance, and safety expectations.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Manufacturing plant conditions (indoors, with variable temperature, humidity, noise, and dirt).
• Relatively high temperatures
• Use of personal protective equipment including a welding hood, gloves, and sleeves, safety glasses, face shields and hearing protection
• Physical hazards such as powered vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic, sharp objects, moving machinery, electrical arc-welding equipment, and materials handling
• Working with hazardous materials, including solvents, oils, grease, and pressurized gases
• A variable work schedule (ranging from 8-12 hours daily with overtime paid after 8 hours per day) and some scheduled work on Saturdays.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have appropriate MIG welding experience OR have completed a formal welding training program (or the equivalent in training and experience).
• Be able to handle items weighing over 60 pounds. This includes lifting, pushing, pulling, and positioning components.
• Have appropriate mechanical skills, including experience using hand and air-powered tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, etc.).
• Have appropriate reading, clerical, and basic math skills.
• Have a good work record, including indications of strong self-motivation, reliable attendance, attention to quality, ability to learn new skills, and a cordial, cooperative personality

PHYSICAL DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS: Medium

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Standing: Continuous
• Sitting: Occasional
• Walking: Frequent
• Twisting: Frequent
• Bending: Frequent
• Elevated Work: Occasional
• Squatting/Kneeling: Frequent
• Climbing: Frequent
• Pulling/Pushing: up to 50lbs
• Floor to Knuckle: up to 60lbs
• Knuckle to Shoulder: up to 35lbs
• Shoulder to Overhead: up to 25lbs

If interested in this role, please apply online!

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