Job Details

Epsilon Systems SRS Repair, Inc. Is seeking a full-time Welder I in Portsmouth, VA.

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

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignites torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds and/or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operates 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.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.

Required Qualifications :

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Knowledge, or experience and must pass qualification test for each process
• Ability to obtain and maintain base access to assigned government/military/private installations.
• Knowledge of a range of welding principles, processes, and techniques requiring complete penetration and fusion of base and filler metals.
• Ability to maintain dimensions and tolerances to specifications, weld parts and structures that vary in size, shape and thickness.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a forklift and man-lift operator.

ADA Notations:

• Requires walking, reaching, sitting and concentration in the presence of occasional and loud noises.
• Able to move in narrow and restricted passageways, up/down steep and narrow ladders or stairways, and up and down antenna masts/yardarms (onboard ships).
• Able to lift, carry and move objects up to 50 lbs. in weight.
• Must have manual and finger dexterity; able to grasp, manipulate, assemble small objects.
• Able to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Able to perceive and distinguish normal range of colors.
• May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including but not limited to: hard hat, safety glasses/goggles, ear plugs/muffs, masks/respirators, safety vests, gloves and steel-toe boots.

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.