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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Operate or tend welding machines that join or bond together components to fabricate metal products and assemblies, according to specifications and blueprints. | Turn and press knobs and buttons or enter operating instructions into computers to adjust and start welding machines. | |||
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Set up, operate, and tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies. | ||||
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Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components. | ||||
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Give directions to other workers regarding machine set-up and use. | ||||
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Correct problems by adjusting controls or by stopping machines and opening holding devices. | ||||
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Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices. | ||||
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Record operational information on specified production reports. | ||||
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Start, monitor, and adjust robotic welding production lines. | ||||
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Read blueprints, work orders, and production schedules to determine product or job instructions and specifications. | ||||
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Assemble, align, and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components. | ||||
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Lay out, fit, or connect parts to be bonded, calculating production measurements as necessary. | ||||
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Conduct trial runs before welding, soldering or brazing and make necessary adjustments to equipment. | ||||
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Dress electrodes, using tip dressers, files, emery cloths, or dressing wheels. | ||||
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Remove completed workpieces and parts from machinery, using hand tools. | ||||
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Observe meters, gauges, and machine operations to ensure that soldering or brazing processes meet specifications. | ||||
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Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, and stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools. | ||||
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Select torch tips, alloys, flux, coil, tubing, and wire, according to metal types and thicknesses, data charts, and records. | ||||
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Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics. | ||||
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Prepare metal surfaces and workpieces, using hand-operated equipment such as grinders, cutters, or drills. | ||||
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Clean, lubricate, maintain, and adjust equipment to maintain efficient operation, using air hoses, cleaning fluids, and hand tools. | ||||
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Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, and shut-off. | ||||
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Tend auxiliary equipment used in welding processes. | ||||
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Devise and build fixtures and jigs used to hold parts in place during welding, brazing, or soldering. | ||||
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Fill hoppers and position spouts to direct flow of flux, or manually brush flux onto seams of workpieces. | ||||
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Transfer components, metal products, and assemblies, using moving equipment. | ||||
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Add chemicals and materials to workpieces or machines to facilitate bonding or to cool workpieces. | ||||
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Mark weld points and positions of components on workpieces, using rules, squares, templates, and scribes. | ||||
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Anneal finished workpieces to relieve internal stress. | ||||
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Immerse completed workpieces into water or acid baths to cool and clean components. | ||||
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Operate or tend welding machines that join or bond together components to fabricate metal products and assemblies, according to specifications and blueprints. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Welding, Soldering and Brazing Machine Operators and Tenders
Welding, Soldering and Brazing Machine Operators and Tenders
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Data entry software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Tool center point TCP setting software | Industrial control software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Arc welding equipment | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Ball peen hammers | Hammers | |||
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Bench vises | Bench vises | |||
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Brazing machines | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Brazing robots | Welding robots | |||
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C clamps | C clamps | |||
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Center punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Chipping hammers | Power chippers | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Cold-welding machines | Welders | |||
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Computerized numerical control CNC oxy-fuel systems | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dial calipers | Calipers | |||
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Diffusion-welding machines | Welders | |||
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Face masks | Facial shields | |||
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Files | Files | |||
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Fillet weld gauges | Thickness measuring devices | |||
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Gas welding torches | Blow torches | |||
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Hand clamps | Hand clamps | |||
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Hand scrapers | Blades or tooth or other cutting edges | |||
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Heating furnaces | Induction heaters | |||
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Hydraulic booms | Hydraulic truck cranes | |||
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Hydraulic winches | Winches | |||
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Laser cutters | Laser cutting tools | |||
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Laser-beam machines | Laser welding machinery | |||
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Layout squares | Squares | |||
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Magnifiers | Magnifiers | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Outside micrometer calipers | Calipers | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power hoists | Hoists | |||
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Product loading equipment | Loading equipment | |||
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Resistance welding guns | Welders | |||
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Resistance welding machines | Welders | |||
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Rulers | Rulers | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Safety goggles | Goggles | |||
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Side cutting pliers | End cut pliers | |||
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Slip joint pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Soldering machines | Soldering or desoldering or combined stations | |||
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Soldering robots | Welding robots | |||
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Spot welding guns | Welding tools | |||
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Tongs | Tongs | |||
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Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment | Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery | |||
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Undercut gauges | Gauges or inspection fixtures | |||
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Vernier micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Vise grip pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Walk-behind lift trucks | Lifts | |||
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Welding electrodes | Welding electrodes | |||
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Welding helmets | Welding masks | |||
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Welding machines | Welders | |||
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Welding robots | Welding robots | |||
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Welding tip cleaning files | Welding or brazing tip cleaner files | |||
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Welding tip dressers | Welding tip dressers or accessories | |||
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Welding torch tips | Welding or cutting tips | |||
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Wire brushes | Wire brushes | |||
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Workpiece positioning jigs | Positioning jig | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Arc Welding Machine Operator | |||
Assembler | |||
Auto Welder | |||
Billet Assembler | |||
Braze Operator | |||
Brazer | |||
Brazing Machine Operator | |||
Brazing Machine Setter | |||
Brazing Machine Setter and Setup Operator | |||
Brazing Machine Tender | |||
Brazing Metal Fill Operator | |||
Controlled Atmospheric Furnace Brazer | |||
Electron Beam Machine Welder Setter | |||
Electron Beam Welder Setter | |||
Electron Beam Welding Machine Operator | |||
Electroslag Welding Machine Operator | |||
Explosion Welder | |||
Fabricator | |||
Final Assembly Worker | |||
Finishing Technician | |||
Fitter-Welder | |||
Friction Welding Machine Operator | |||
Furnace Brazer | |||
Gas Welding Machine Operator | |||
Induction Brazer | |||
Induction Heating Equipment Setter | |||
Industrial Welder | |||
Laser Beam Machine Operator | |||
Machine Lead Burner | |||
Machine Operator | |||
Machine Setter | |||
Machine Welder | |||
Manufacturing Assistant | |||
Manufacturing Associate | |||
Manufacturing Operator | |||
Metal Model Maker | |||
Mig Welder | |||
Operator | |||
Oxygraph Operator | |||
Press Operator | |||
Production Worker | |||
Racking Machine Operator | |||
Radiagraph Operator | |||
Reflow Operator | |||
Repair Welder | |||
Reserve Tube Welder | |||
Resistance Machine Welder Setter | |||
Resistance Welding Machine Operator | |||
Robot Operator | |||
Robotic Welding Cell Operator | |||
Rod Welder | |||
Solder Deposit Operator | |||
Solderer | |||
Soldering Machine Operator | |||
Soldering Machine Setter | |||
Soldering Machine Setter and Setup Operator | |||
Soldering Machine Tender | |||
Spot Welder | |||
Technical Associate (TA) | |||
Thermit Welding Machine Operator | |||
Tool and Die Maker | |||
Travograph Operator | |||
Type Soldering Machine Tender | |||
Ultrasonic Welding Machine Operator | |||
Wave Soldering Machine Operator | |||
Weld Technician | |||
Welder | |||
Welding Machine Operator | |||
Welding Machine Operator/Tender | |||
Welding Machine Setter | |||
Welding Operator | |||
Welding Pantograph Machine Operator | |||
Welding Pantograph Operator | |||
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