Welder I - Military veterans preferred

Welder I
Job ID: 2025-141
Date Posted: 2025-04-09T00:00:00
Location: Portsmouth, Virginia
Minimum Experience: 0 years
Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent

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. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veterans.

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