EAGLE RAILCAR SERVICES

Certified Tank Welder Job Description

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

Tasks:

• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  
• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
  
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
  
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  
• Examine workpieces for defects, and measure workpieces with templates to ensure conformance with specifications and application of ACF Side Sill Modifications when necessary.
  
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications, or types and thicknesses of metals.
  
• Fill holes and increase the size of metal parts.
  
• Detect faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
  
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
  
• Mark and/or tag material with proper car numbers, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  
• Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.