Welder

Are you seeking a challenging, rewarding, and well-compensated position at a leading international company? Diatom is a reference in Latin America for the production of silicates, synthetic silicas, and zeolites. Founded in 1956 in Argentina and Uruguay, it expanded to Brazil in 1985 and is now building a new manufacturing facility in Andrews, SC. 

We want to hear from you if you have a strong growth aptitude and enjoy a diverse and innovative environment, problem-solving, and working in a supportive team!

We seek professionals with expertise in production, maintenance, furnace, administrative, and chemical laboratories.

What We Offer
 

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance ( Health, Dental & Vision)
• PTO and Holidays
   

What you’ll do

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools standard to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Mark or tag material with the proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Align and clamp workpieces together using rules, squares, or hand tools, or position items in fixtures, jigs, or vises.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure to obtain desired flames.
• Position and secure workpieces using hoists, cranes, wire, banding machines, or hand tools.
• Melt and apply solder along adjoining edges of workpieces to solder joints using soldering irons, gas torches, or electric-ultrasonic equipment.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating parts, warping, shrinking distortion, or material expansion.
• Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.
• Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
• Clean or degrease parts using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, c
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and operations.
• Any other activities as assigned by the manager
   

What you bring
 

• Over 3 years of experience in Welding 
• High school diploma or GED
• Proficient in English; speaking in Spanish is a plus
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing facility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently
• Team player with the ability to interact effectively with all parts of the organization
• Ability to follow directions and adhere to company procedures and standards
• Dependability and accountability