Welder

For more than 65 years, HEICO Corporation has thrived by serving niche segments of the aviation, defense, space and electronic industries by providing innovative and cost-saving products and services. HEICO's high energy culture focuses our Team Members' on providing high quality products and services to our customer base. Our leadership approach creates a dynamic environment that continually challenges our Team Members to perform at their best. For four consecutive years, Forbes Magazine ranked HEICO as one of the 200 "Best Small Companies." ROLE:The ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Performs a variety of welding processes such as hellarc, gas, arc, brazing, silver soldering, soft soldering and the like on a limited variety of materials such as stainless, aluminum, steel, copper, brass, exotics or others. • Performs layout operation, develops fixtures on one-of-a-kind units, and selects optimum welding processes. • Inspects work upon completion. • May perform related work such as flame cutting, bending, forming, beveling notching template making. • Utilizes standard shop hand tools, measuring devises and equipment. • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and • • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors. • 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. • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material. • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. • 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.Lay out, • • Performs other related duties as required. EDUCATION: High School Diploma or GED Equivalent EXPERIENCE: • Minimum of 3 years welding experience with Wasploy, Hastelloy ,Titanium and Aluminum metals is requiredSome Automatic welding experience preferred. • CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONSN/A SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE OR ABILITIES Language : Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to communicate orally and in writing Computer Skills : Not required Mathematical Skills : Ability to use basic shop math. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs Reasoning Abilities : 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. Ability to use equipment and tools properly and safely. Special Skills and Abilities : Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, squat, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The Team Member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. May work with toxic or caustic chemicals. WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this job, the associate is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; toxic or caustic chemicals; and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.