Colby Vance
Welder class A
Ball, LA *****
ad1hzw@r.postjobfree.com
• I have 10 years experience and certifications as Welder Class A.
• SMAW, MIG, FCAW, TIG 6G. CAN PASS X-RAY
• Willing to start immediately!
• Willing to relocate!
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Welder
Hayes Manufacturing Co Inc - Pineville, LA
May 2013 to November 2013
Employment Type: Full Time (30 Hours or More)
Welded components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. Operated 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.
Examined workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
Recognized, set up, and operated hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
Welded separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys. Clamped, held, tack-welded, heat-bended, grinded or bolted 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.
Ignited torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
Connected and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
Welder
UTLX Manufacturing - Alexandria, LA
October 2012 to April 2013
Employment Type: Full Time (30 Hours or More)
Read blueprints, work orders, or production schedules to determine product or job instructions or specifications.
Assemble, align,
Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices. and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal
components.
Set up, operate, or tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
Lay out, fit, or connect parts to be bonded, calculating production measurements as necessary. Welder
C.F.'s Trailers - Alexandria, LA
April 2012 to September 2012
Employment Type: Full Time (30 Hours or More)
I fabricated and welded trailers
Education
Vocational School Certificate in Welding
Louisiana Technical College - Alexandria, LA
September 2008 to May 2010
Skills
• Fabrication (10+ years)
• MIG (10+ years)
• Welder Fabricator (10+ years)
• Welding (10+ years)
• HVAC/R (5 years)
• Electrical Experience (4 years)
• Flux (10+ years)
• Blueprint Reading
• Equipment Repair
• Micrometer
• Facilities Maintenance
• Refrigeration (7 years)
• Plasma Cutting (10+ years)
• Mechanical Knowledge
• Manufacturing (10+ years)
• Assembly
• Schematics
• Troubleshooting (7 years)
• HVAC (7 years)
• Maintenance
• English
• Hand Tools (10+ years)
Certifications and Licenses
EPA Universal Certification
Welding Certification
Assessments
Work motivation — Proficient
September 2020
Level of motivation and discipline applied toward work Full results: Proficient
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