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Job Description

Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-4121.06

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters”.

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Tasks for “Stitch Welder”

Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
Mix and apply protective coatings to products.
Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
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.
Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
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, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials.
Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
Operate 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.
Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.
Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
Melt lead bars, wire, or scrap to add lead to joints or to extrude melted scrap into reusable form.
Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
Signal crane operators to move large workpieces.
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.
Operate brazing and soldering 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 positions for welding.
Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.

Related Technology & Tools

Air drills
Arc voltage measurement instruments
Current converters
Power saws
Micrometers
Electric overhead hoists
Metal benders
Slitters
Plasma welders
Semiautomatic flame-cutting equipment
Welding electrode holders
Air chisels
Electric pipe threaders
Calipers
Shears
Socket wrench sets
Squares
Portable magnetic drill presses
Bandsaws
Pattern cutting torches
Pinchbars
Underwater welding equipment
Shielded arc welding tools
Respirator hose masks
Pry bars
Metal cutting taps
Ultrasonic welding equipment
Air scalers
Forklifts
Levels
Oxyacetylene welding equipment
Buffers
Motorized cutting torches
Power grinders
Scribers
Grinding machines
Storage ovens and hot boxes
Welding robots
Power drills
Winches
Nibblers
Protractors
Metal cutting dies
Temperature gauges
Adjustable wrenches
Straightedges
Wire feed rate measurement instruments
Hand pipe threaders
Wire cutters
Light trucks
Pipe cutters
Anvils
Goggles
Impact wrenches
Metal markers
Fillet weld gauges
Underwater electrode holders
Brazing equipment
Metal inert gas MIG welders
Hydraulic jacks
Drill presses
Punch presses
Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
Waterproof gloves
Welding lenses
Computerized numerical control CNC programmable welding robot controllers
Electrode wires
Gas flow measurement instruments
Heliarc welding equipment
Rod ovens
Cutoff saws
Lathes
Milling machines
Hydraulic presses
Ratchets
Unishears
Ladders
Steam cleaning equipment
Desktop computers
Welding guns
Two way radios
Soldering irons
Laser printers
Direct current DC sources
Swing stages
Vernier calipers
Power wire brushes
Welding electrodes
Portable gas operated arc welders
Hydraulic truck lifts
Mobile welding units
Hand clamps
Welding masks
Self-contained breathing apparatus
Welding torches
Single-cut mill saw files
Dive suits
Wire brushes
Laser welders
Welding tips
Hand shields
Resistance welding equipment
Scaffolding
Comealongs
Wirefeed welders
Angle finders
Punches
Hand chipping hammers
Power chippers
Welding shields
Welding current measurement instruments
Underwater electrodes
Overhead cranes
Brakes
Personal computers

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