Welding Metal

STEPHEN JONES

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Professional Summary

Skills

Experience

Welder – Fabrication (2/20/2016 to 10/29/2016

Atchley Steel Fabrication – Salem, AL

- Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools

- Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring Tapes

- Tack-weld fitted parts together

- Layout and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met

- Lift or move materials and finished using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers

- Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and tasks sequences

- Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes

- Setup and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components

- Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend and straighten metal

- Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools

- Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces

- Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches Welder, 08/2012 to 05/2014

Caterpillar – LaGrange, GA

- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions

- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits

- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straight edges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications

- Recognize, setup, and power tools common to the welding trades such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment

- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron and other alloys

- Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals

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- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits

- Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained

- 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, plasma arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding

- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required

- Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment

- Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers

- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter

- Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools

- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisor

- Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths

- Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies

- Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts

- Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces

Welder, 12/2011 to 8/2012

Donaldson filtration – Auburn, LA

- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits

- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straight edges templated 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

- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys

- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and position for welding

- Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained

- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding and submerged arc welding

- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required

- Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, arc-cutting equipment

- Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers Page 3

- Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools

- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors

- Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts. Education

Certificate: HVac, August 2014, Texarkana College – Texarkana, TX High School Diploma: Basic High School studies, April 1995 Kadena High School – Kadena-Cho, Okinowa

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