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

Tasks

• 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.