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Welder

Department: Welding
Type: Full-Time
Minimum schooling: High School diploma or general education degree (GED); or equivalent combination of education and experience
Description:

We are looking for welders to perform any combination of tasks. Setting up and operating all types of welding machines that join together parts of fabricated metal products as specified by mechanical drawings. Must plan, lay out, set up and perform some to most work assignments independently.  Must use correct templates and accurately position and fit parts with close  tolerances  in accordance with mechanical drawings and instructions on shop drawing.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Sets up and operates welding machines.
  • Reads and interprets mechanical drawings and shop routing.
  • Plans, lays out and performs welding
  • Selects and uses correct welding rods, wire and clamps.
  • Ability to weld short and long production runs with repetition.

Qualifications:

  • 18 years old+
  • Some Vo-Tech training and/or six months experience
  • Basic knowledge of how to use welding machines

Essential Functions:
Mathematical Skills 

  • Ability to add and subtract using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. 
  • Ability to read and interpret a tape measure.

Reasoning Ability 

  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. 
  • Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands 
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit and move around and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. 
  • The employee is required to lift material on an average of 20-75 pounds. 
  • The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. 
  • The employee is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. 

At Progressive Systems we offer competitive benefits package that includes:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Life Insurance
  • 401 (k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Vacation and PTO
  • Paid Holidays

Authorization and waiver

I authorize and request my former employers, references, educational institutions, and any credit agencies or reporting services that have information about me to give the company any information and opinions about me in their possession and which may lawfully be disclosed. I hereby waive written notice of such release of information and opinions, and I release such former employers, references, educational institutions, and credit agencies or reporting services from any liability or claim relating to such release of information and opinions. I also authorize and request federal, state, and local governmental agencies to release to the company any information requested concerning any criminal convictions on my record. A photocopy of this signed authorization and waiver will be valid as an original.*

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• The Company may obtain a consumer credit report about you in connection with your application for employment.
• If you become an employee of the company, the company may from time to time obtain a consumer credit report about you.

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Terms and Conditions

I hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge, the information furnished in this application is true and complete, and I understand that if any false information, omissions, or misrepresentations are discovered, my application may be rejected and , if I am employed, my employment may be terminated at any time.

In consideration of my employement, I agree to conform to the company’s rules and regulations, and I agree that my employment and compensation can be terminated, with or without cause, and with or without notice, at any time, at either my or the company’s option. I also understand and agree that the terms and conditions of my employment may be changed, with or without cause, and with or without notice, at any time by the company. I understand that no company representative, other than its president, and then only when in writing and signed by the president, has nay authority to enter into any agreement for employment for any specific period of time, or to make any agreement contrary to the forgoing.

By answering YES, I am creating an electronic signature as binding as my handwritten signature.*

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