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

Other names for Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters: Gas Burner Operator, Gas Cutter, Gas Welder, Gas Welder Apprentice, Getter Welder, Gun Welder, Hand Thermal Cutter, Heliarc Welder, Helium Arc Welder, Induction Heating Equipment Setter, Iron Cutter, Lap Welder, Lead Burner, Lead Burner Apprentice, Liner Assembler, Maintenance Welder, Metal Welder, Mig Welder, Oxyacetylene Burner, Oxyacetylene Cutter, Oxyacetylene Torch Operator, Oxyacetylene Welder, Oxyhydrogen Welder, Pipe Welder, Production Line Welder, Production Welder, Rail Bonder, Robot Operator, Robotic Welder, Scrap Cutter, Scrap Iron Cutter, Scrap Metal Burner, Sheet Metal Welder, Shotweld Operator, Spot Welder, Steel Burner, Steel Cutter, Steel Welder, Stitch Welder, Sub Arc Operator, Tack Welder, Tank Truck Mechanic, Tank Welder, Thermite Welder, Torch Burner, Torch Cutter, Torch Heater, Torch Operator, Torch Shearer, Torch Straightener, Torch Straightener and Heater, Ultrasonic Solderer, Underwater Welder, Unionmelt Operator, Weld Lay Out Worker, Welder, Welder Apprentice, Welder Fabricator, Welder Fitter, Welder Operator, Welder-Assembler, Welder-Fitter, Welder-Fitter Apprentice, Welding Estimator, Welding Lead Burner, Welding Setter, Welding Specialist, Welding Tester, Wire Welder, Fabricator, Filament Welder, Flame Burner, Flame Cutter, Flash Welder, Acetylene Cutter, Acetylene Torch Burner, Aluminum Welder, Arc Cutter, Arc Welder, Arc Welder Apprentice, Atomic Welder, Bar Welder, Bit Welder, Blade Worker, Body Welder, Boiler Welder, Burner, Butt Welder, Can Solderer, Combination Welder, Combination Welder Apprentice, Cutting Torch Operator, Die Welder, Electric Arc Welder, Electric Spot Welder, Electric Welder, Experimental Welder,

• Operate safety equipment, and use safe work habits.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment and/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, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Mark and/or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications, or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
• Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.
• Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Signal crane operators to move large workpieces.
• Gouge metals using the air-arc gouging process.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing; maintain required stocks of materials.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Cut metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions, and contour and bevel as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
• Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Melt lead bars, wire, or scrap to add lead to joints or to extrude melted scrap into reusable form.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
• Mix and apply protective coatings to products.
• Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines such as brakes and shears.
• Operate brazing and soldering equipment.

• Pneumatic hammer
• Pneumatic drill
• Pneumatic sanding machines
• Protractors
• Anvils
• Voltage or current meters
• Welders
• Bandsaw wheel
• Workshop presses
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Power buffers
• Calipers
• Hand clamps
• Pullers
• Microcontrollers
• Frequency converters
• Power saws
• Desktop computers
• Taps or dies
• Welding generators
• Wetsuits
• Workshop presses
• Hoists
• Threading Machines
• Welding wire
• Welding masks
• Files
• Thickness measuring devices
• Forklifts
• Flow sensors
• Goggles
• Grinding machines
• Hammers
• Threading taps
• Welding masks
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Jacks
• Hydraulic press frames
• Manlift or personnel lift
• Impact wrenches
• Ladders
• Laser printers
• Laser welding machinery
• Lathes
• Levels
• Light trucks or sport utility vehicles
• Tangent benders
• Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery
• Metal stamps
• Micrometers
• Milling machines
• Welders
• Blow torches
• Nibblers
• Workshop cranes
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Blow torches
• Personal computers
• Pry bars
• Pipe or tube cutters
• Plasma welding machinery
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Workshop presses
• Power chippers
• Power drills
• Power grinders
• Power saws
• Wire brushes
• Protractors
• Pry bars
• Workshop presses
• Metal stamps or punches
• Ratchets
• Welders
• Respirators
• Welding tools
• Scaffolding
• Scribers
• Respiration air supplying self contained breathing apparatus or accessories
• Welders
• Shears
• Bar or rod cutters
• Socket sets
• Soldering irons or guns
• Squares
• Pressure or steam cleaners
• Welding tools
• Straight edges
• Manlift or personnel lift
• Taps or dies
• Handheld thermometer
• Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery
• Two way radios
• Ultrasound welding machinery
• Electrode holders
• Welding electrodes
• Welders
• Shears
• Calipers
• Protective gloves
• Voltage or current meters
• Electrode holders
• Welding electrodes
• Welding tools
• Safety glasses
• Welding robots
• Welding masks
• Welding or cutting tips
• Blow torches
• Winches
• Wire brushes
• Wire cutters
• Speed sensors
• Welders
• Adjustable wrenches

Project management software

Calendar and scheduling software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software