Field Welder

Company Overview

Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors, LLC (“Phoenix”), founded in 1986 and headquartered in Avon, Indiana, is one of the nation’s leading construction company in elevated water towers and storage containers. Phoenix has constructed over 5,000 elevated water storage tanks throughout the United States as well as several foreign countries. By employing our own field crews, Phoenix offers a turnkey operation through engineering, fabrication, foundation installation, field erection, field coating and maintenance. Phoenix maintains the industry’s highest-rated safety construction and safe working environment that has earned Phoenix numerous “Tank of the Year” awards from the Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association, American Water Works Association, and Tnemec Industrial Coatings.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities for Field Welder:

• Work under an assigned foreman and with crew members to fully erect elevated water storage tanks using basic construction knowledge and techniques
• Practice safe, thorough, and positive work habits
• Study and learn blueprints, sketches or specifications
• Use basic math skills to calculate dimensions and weights
• Inspect material to be welded or worked on
• Maintain equipment and machinery
• Ignite torches or start power supplies
• Weld using a variety of different techniques, in various positions and anywhere from the ground to 300 feet in the air
• Grind and gouge metal for possible extended periods of time
• Lift heavy equipment and tools throughout the work day
• Use rigging techniques with heavy equipment and setting steel using key plates, bull pins, keys, shims, lifting lugs, nuts, u bars, and scaffold clips