Welder Fitter

McWane Plant and Industrial in Calera Alabama is seeking an experienced Welder Fitter to join our Job Shop Fabrication and Machining operation. The Welder Fitter will analyze engineering drawings and specifications to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

Scope of Responsibilities

• 1st Responsibility - Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.

• Assists supervisors and managers in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.

• Wears appropriate PPE which may include fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head and eye protection.

• Responsible for cleanliness of the assigned work area as well as maintaining a safe and clean work environment. 

• Proactively promotes the McWane Way principles. 

• Develops templates and other work aids to hold and align parts. 

• Lay out, fit, and fabricate metal components to assemble structural forms, such as machinery bases, sluice gates, and vessels, using knowledge of welding techniques and details from blueprints. 

• Lays out, positions, and secures parts and assemblies according to specifications, using straightedge, combination square, calipers, and ruler etc. 

• Tack-welds or welds components and assemblies, using electric, gas, arc, or other welding equipment. 

• Cuts workpiece using plasma, gas arc, powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knife. 

• Observes tests on welded surfaces, such as hydrostatic, x-ray, and dimension tolerance to evaluate weld quality and conformance to specifications. 

• Job duties and responsibilities may be changed at leadership discretion

Work Environment: 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls.  

• The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  

• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.   

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus and determine and distinguish color.