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Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. is seeking a full-time Welder II in San Diego, CA

Summary: This exciting role supports the US Navy in sunny San Diego! You’ll be responsible for welding aluminum components to precise design specifications and repairing diverse shipboard equipment. Using SWRMC-approved procedures, you’ll work with layouts, blueprints, and various welding tools to make a real impact. Join us and be part of something meaningful!

Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Provides aluminum welding support certified in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG), Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) and Gas Metal Arc Welding Pulse (GMAW-P) using 5356 filler wire.

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

+ Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

+ Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.

+ Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

+ Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

+ Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse aluminum segments, using the aforementioned processes (TIG, MIG, GMAW-P).

+ Ensure shop safety and housekeeping are followed.

+ Ensures all materials and equipment are properly and safely stored, protected, and maintained.

+ Reports the status and progress of all work to the government supervisor.

+ Alerts the government supervisor of the causes of work delays.

+ Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.

+ Examines work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straight edges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

+ Recognizes, set ups, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.

+ Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.

+ Performs welding methods using a mirror.

Required Qualifications:

+ High School diploma or equivalent

+ Minimum 3 years of specific experience as a qualified production welder

+ Ability to obtain and maintain a DBIDS badge

+ Ability to communicate verbally and electronically

+ Ability to read schematics, follow detailed instructions and be self-motivated

+ Ability to read, interpret, and follow detailed oral and written instructions, schematics or drawings and to conduct activities in a safe manner

+ Ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer)

+ Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted

+ Ability to qualify to SWRMC approved welding and brazing procedures

+ Ability to make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedure appropriate principles and applicable state and federal laws and regulations

+ Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures

+ Knowledge of Qualify Craftsman 301 for civilians

+ Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance

+ Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Production welder experience while in the Navy or working as a civilian production welder supporting Navy ship repair or new construction

+ Completion of a formal course of vocational or Navy welding training and certification

ADA Notifications:

+ Frequent standing, sitting, crawling, kneeling, stooping, crouching, walking, handling, feeling with hands, reaching with arms

+ Occasional lifting up to 50 pounds

+ Noise conditions range from very quiet to very noisy

+ Manual and finger dexterity; able to grasp, manipulate, assemble small objects

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics