How do they match: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

  • Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

  • Metal Fabrication Welder
  • Metal Inert Gas Welder
  • Metal Solderer
  • Metal Welder
  • Blade Worker
  • Scrap Metal Burner
  • Sheet Metal Welder
  • Weld Layout Worker

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

  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and operations.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
  • Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  • Melt and apply solder to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products, using soldering equipment.
  • Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • 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.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  • Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.

  • Determine metal or plastic production methods.
  • Melt metal, plastic, or other materials to prepare for production.
  • Operate metal or plastic forming equipment.
  • Reshape metal workpieces to established specifications.
  • Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.