How do they match: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

  • Blade Worker
  • Weld Layout Worker

  • Align and clamp workpieces together, using rules, squares, or hand tools, or position items in fixtures, jigs, or vises.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and operations.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.
  • Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
  • Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
  • Melt and apply solder along adjoining edges of workpieces to solder joints, using soldering irons, gas torches, or electric-ultrasonic equipment.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
  • Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
  • Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.

  • Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.
  • Clean workpieces or finished products.
  • Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production.
  • Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
  • Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
  • Reshape metal workpieces to established specifications.
  • Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.
  • Solder parts or workpieces.
  • Trim excess material from workpieces.