How do they match: Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

  • Set up, operate, or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser-beam machines.

  • Read blueprints, work orders, or production schedules to determine product or job instructions or specifications.
  • Assemble, align, and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components.
  • Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics.
  • Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices.
  • Observe meters, gauges, or machine operations to ensure that soldering or brazing processes meet specifications.
  • Prepare metal surfaces or workpieces, using hand-operated equipment, such as grinders, cutters, or drills.
  • Select torch tips, alloys, flux, coil, tubing, or wire, according to metal types or thicknesses, data charts, or records.
  • Set up, operate, or tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
  • Transfer components, metal products, or assemblies, using moving equipment.

  • Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
  • Assemble metal or plastic parts or products.
  • Reshape metal workpieces to established specifications.