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

  • Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

  • Structural Welder
  • Fitter
  • Metal Fabrication Welder
  • Metal Inert Gas Welder
  • Metal Solderer
  • Metal Welder
  • Fabrication Welder
  • Fabricator
  • Scrap Metal Burner
  • Sheet Metal Welder
  • Welder Fitter
  • Welder Fabricator

  • 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.

  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.
  • 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.
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  • Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
  • 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.

  • Assemble temporary equipment or structures.
  • Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
  • 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.