Structural Fitter & Welder

Job Description

Job Description

Structural Fitter / Welder

At SteelCon Inc., we build the future of America's infrastructure with cutting-edge steel fabrication and structural solutions. From power to progress, we deliver unmatched quality and reliability-one project, one partnership, and one employee at a time.

We live by our core values : Excellence, Responsibility, Innovation, and Teamwork. These values fuel our success and create a dynamic environment where our employees grow and thrive. With a commitment to career development, advancement opportunities, and employee well-being, SteelCon is the place where your hard work turns into long-term success.

Scope of Responsibility :

This position involves fabricating and assembling structural steel components using prescribed procedures, industry standards, and detailed drawings. Employees must complete SteelCon's Welder & Fabricator Training Program.

Primary Purpose of this Position :

Fit steel parts for structural, plate, and misc. steel assemblies per shop drawings and quality requirements.

Essential Job Functions :

• Planning, laying out, and fitting metal components, such as plate stiffeners, stiffened panels, bulkheads, and frames using blueprints or templates and tools while maintaining alignment tolerances.
• Locating and marking reference lines, such as center, buttock, and frame lines.
• Alignment of parts in relation to each other, using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
• Setting, fitting, and erecting of structural assemblies and modules within alignment tolerances.
• Installing structural foundations and outfit items such as doors, hatches, brackets, and clips.
• May tack weld panels, bulkhead, assemblies, clips, and brackets.
• May roll, bend, flange, cut, and shape plates, beams, and other metal parts using shop machinery, such as ironworkers, plate rolls, presses, and press brakes.
• Ability to follow instructions, written and / or verbal, with little or no supervision.
• Performing other related job duties as assigned in a safe and efficient manner; also, please see physical requirements.
• Other typical duties performed by a fitter.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Physical Demands :

Non-Material Handling Demands

Tools Required :

Square, Tape Measure, Weld Lead, 4-inch grinder, 9-inch grinder, Ball Peen Hammer, Sledgehammer, Hand Torch, Wire Brushes, Chipping Hammers, Clamps, Stamping Taps, and Chains.

Machines Utilized :

Welder, Overhead Crane, Jib Crane, Pallets, Sawhorses, and Forklifts.