Lead Welder

Lead Welder
Ramsey MN
Weekend Shift, Days

This is a great opportunity for a skilled welding professional who wants a compressed workweek and the flexibility of having the rest of the week off. A weekend shift, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 6am – 630pm with a 15% shift differential.

Peak's is searching for a Lead Welder for our customer, a leading U.S.-based manufacturer specializing in custom equipment, precision fabrication, and turnkey manufacturing solutions.

POSITION SUMMARY
This is a working lead position responsible for assisting the supervisor with designated weld personnel to ensure we consistently meet our customer specifications and quality expectations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Collaborate with the supervisor in an effort to schedule personnel and workload.
• Keeps the supervisor informed of important developments, potential problems, and related information necessary for effective supervision.
• Provide optimum cooperation and complete information to the Supervisor and other personnel, relative to projects within his/her assigned group, to ensure on-time and accurate job completion.
• Develops, maintains, and portrays a high degree of professionalism and technical competence within the organization, encouraging excellence through example.
• Recommends measures to improve productivity and quality.
• Continually works to improve the company's efficient use of material, capital, and human resources.
• Make recommendations as required or necessary for new equipment and supplies.
• Responsible for training employees along with the supervisor, communicating quality plans, and activities as appropriate, to ensure a coordinated work effort and "team” approach. Periodically giving input to the supervisor on appraising performance, addressing complaints, and resolving problems with the supervisor.
• Performs related work as apparent or assigned.
• Provides problem-solving support, clarification of process performance requirements, and ensures assigned personnel are adequately prepared for the timely and successful completion of projects.
• Functions as a technical resource for the project weld department and, as such, is consistently able to communicate clearly and effectively with both technical personnel and non-technical personnel in an appropriate and understandable manner.
• Works from drawings, sketches, welding symbols, specifications, and instructions to plan work in proper operational sequence and determine methods and techniques to be applied.
• Welds all types of materials in structural and sheet metal sizes and shapes, utilizing a full range of welding processes including gas metal arc welding (GMAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), plasma, and oxyacetylene cutting, along with brazing.
• Creates locating fixtures and measuring devices as required, and fits and positions parts in accordance with drawing specifications.
• Performs welding tasks daily using care to Client a smooth bead, obtains proper penetration and fusion, displays the ability to manage distortion of weldments, detects defective material, unusual conditions, or operating difficulties, and reports it to the supervisor.
• Attends and completes training as required.
• Complies with Company and Department policies and procedures as applicable.
• Keeps up to date on new technology and other advancements relating to Welding.
• Ability to demonstrate strong math.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
• Ability to use a variety of hand tools, measuring instruments, and operate all welding equipment, including machine settings for various welding processes.
• Ability to work on intricate welding processes, both hand and machine, to develop complex fabrications to closely prescribed standards.
• Ability to perform some fixturing and set-up as required.
• Ability to relate well to others and gain the respect of co-workers.
• Ability to work independently or with others.
• Good communication skills.
• Displays a positive attitude and a strong desire to learn and grow.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• The lead will assume the responsibilities on the shop floor when the supervisor is not in the shop.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
• A minimum of 5 years of welding experience.
• Demonstrated skill and experience in welding processes by successfully completing AWS/ASME certification tests.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The company fosters a manufacturing-type environment. Moderately heavy work requiring the occasional lifting of objects weighing 50 pounds or less. In the performance of essential duties, the incumbent may be required to operate a variety of industrial machining tools.

Submit your resume to this job posting and our Recruiter will contact qualified candidates immediately for an interview. If you are qualified for this role and send your resume then please be prepared to take a call or return messages promptly.