Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks involved in use of welding, flame cutting, and brazing machines and furnaces: Transfers workpieces, tools, and supplies.

• 2) Inserts welding rods into holders, screws tips to torches, or places reels of wire onto rack and threads ends through feed rolls to help set up machine.

• 3) Positions workpieces and fixtures, and clamps or bolts parts into bed of machine or onto conveyor.

• 4) Removes corrosion, slag, grease, and excess flux from workpieces, using wire brush, scraper, vacuum hose, portable grinder, or chemical solution.

• 5) Fills hoppers with flux or brushes flux and inserts braze or solder alloy along seams of workpiece.

• 6) Turns handles or cranks to move workpieces through machine.

• 7) Bolts portable machines to workpieces, using wrench.

• 8) Removes finished work from machine with tongs, or hoist.

• 9) Tags or marks identifying data on work pieces.

• 10) Oils and cleans machines.

• 11) May cut scrap to size, using hand torch.

• 12) May be designated by machine as Brazer Helper, Furnace; Brazer Helper, Induction; Brazing-Machine-Operator Helper; Flame-Cutting-Machine-Operator Helper; Soldering-Machine-Operator Helper; Welding-Machine-Operator Helper, Arc; Welding-Machine-Operator Helper, Gas.