Sr. Fabricator, Weld Specialist

Title - Sr. Fabricator, Weld Specialist
Details - Day Shift or Second Shift available 2 Openings Sign-On Bonus and Relocation Assistance Available Salary $23.00-$28.00/hr plus overtime Full Benefits package 2 weeks vacation 13 paid holidays
Job Responsibilities - (1) Certified TIG and MIG Welder(2) Capable of working with Standard Carbon and Stainless Steel and other Special Alloy Materials(3) Able to read, understand, follow and explain blue-prints(4) Capable of bending and working with tubing(5) Capable of threading and assembling NPT(6) Must pass basic TIG and MIG weld coupon test(7)Must be capable of achieving 6G weld certification
Education - High School Diploma or GEDWeld Certified Experience - Team Lead experience Preferred8+ years welding experience mandatory12+ years experience preferredOil and gas experience desiredMust have good communication skills
Apply Online at Sundyne Corporation Website

Welding Instructor - Riverside Community College District

RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Position Information Position Title: Welding Instructor, One-Semester Temporary (RCC) Department: Applied Technology (R) Position Type: Full-Time Faculty/Counselor/Librarian College/Campus: Riverside Physical location of the position: Riverside Employment Type: Full-Time Temporary One-Semester Temporary (Faculty) Position Length: 10-month Salary Range: Column C, Step 1 to Column H, Step 6 Salary Amount: $54,155 to $83,483 Salary Type: Annual Is this position categorically (grant) funded? No BASIC FUNCTION: The successful candidate will be responsible for lecture and/or laboratory instruction in all phases of welding. The assignment may also include other courses in the discipline. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree and two years of full- time, or the equivalent part-time experience as a welder OR any associate degree and six years of full-time, or the equivalent part-time experience as a welder OR The Equivalent. (All degrees and units used to satisfy minimum qualifications shall be from accredited institutions). EXPERIENCE: Two years of teaching experience is required. Community college or baccalaureate level teaching experience is desired Licenses/Certifications: Must be American Welding Society (AWS) Certified in the following areas: D1.1, D1.2, D1.3, and D1.4. Other: Evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students (E.C. 87360a). Duties and Responsibilities: The successful candidate will, among other things: 1. Fulfill the duties of a full-time instructor, including, but not limited to, holding weekly office hours and completing 9 hours of "flex credit" through various available activities and seminars. 2. The instructional assignment will include lecture and laboratory classes in the discipline. 3. Assignments are based upon the assumption of a workload of forty hours weekly, including but not limited to conducting classes, class preparation, office hours, student evaluation, committee work, curriculum and program development, and student activities. 4. Other responsibilities include maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position. 5. Supervising student organizations and other co-curricular activities and/or District committee work is expected of all faculty members. Conditions of Employment: 1. This is a long-term temporary, non-tenure track position for the Spring 2009 semester. RCCD employees who have served in a long-term temporary capacity within the last three years are not eligible to apply for this position. 2. Salary is commensurate with academic preparation, and full-time teaching or equivalent experience with a range from Column C, Step 1 to Column H, Step 6 of the current Faculty Salary Schedule. 3. Medical and dental benefits are provided for the employee and dependents. 4. A $50,000 life insurance policy is provided for the employee. 5. Orientation to the college is required as is adherence to college Improvement of Instruction Policy. 6. Maintain broad knowledge of academic or occupational area and design pedagogy related to learning outcomes. 7. Responsible for all other conditions of employment required of full-time faculty members such as a willingness to be involved in community activities and active participation in college committee work, student activities and other support services, and liaison with appropriate civic professional groups. NOTE: This is a long-term temporary, non-tenure track position only and will terminate after graduation exercises in June 2009. There is no guarantee that this position will be funded after June 2009. Being offered and accepting this long-term temporary position in no way implies that an interview will be granted for any subsequent full-time positions, nor does it imply any "inside track" to such a position. Required Applicant Documents: Resume or Curriculum Vitae Cover Letter Letter of Reference 1 Letter of Reference 2 Associate or Equivalent Transcript Optional Applicant Documents: Letter of Reference 1 Letter of Reference 2 Other Document Doctorate Transcript Other Transcript Bachelors or Equivalent Transcript Masters or Equivalent Transcript Other Document: Copies of license, credential, certificate, etc. Effective Employment Date: 02/17/09 Application Deadline: 01-08-2009 Special Comments: IMPORTANT NOTICES: *All offers of employment will be contingent upon the availability of funds and approval by the Board of Trustees. * Only electronic, on-line applications are accepted. All supporting materials, required or optional, must also be in electronic formats and attached to the electronic, on-line application when applying. Supporting materials are only accepted as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or Microsoft Word files and must be less than 2 MB in size. * Paper applications and supporting materials WILL NOT be accepted! * Letters of reference must be non-confidential and submitted electronically when applying on-line. *Interested candidates must apply by the deadline listed above by 8:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time. *The District will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Applicant should contact Diversity and Human Resources at (951) 222-8595 for assistance. Application Types Accepted: Faculty Application For complete job description or for info on how to apply, please visit: https://jobs.rcc.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51312

Welding Companies - Online Strategy

If you are a company involved in welding products and services, you are obviously looking for ways to improve your online presence. Online presence can be very difficult to achieve particularly to get relevant traffic from the search engines, Google, Yahoo, Live etc.

Google currently dominates online search with almost 70% of the traffic, so it would be worthwhile focussing your efforts on Google search. Then the question is, what are the welding keywords that are being searched. I have found Google Trends as a useful tool to show some of this. Some of the leading keywords in welding are welding jobs, welding supplies, welding schools, welding equipment, welding symbols etc. Click the link below to see relative traffic for these keywords and how they stack up from different regions in the world.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22welding+jobs%22,+%22welding+supplies%22,+%22welding+symbols%22,+%22welding+school%22,+%22welding+equipment%22&date=all&geo=all&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

As you know, to get any reasonable amount of traffic from Google, your website has to appear in the first page (top 10) of the searches. Google also provides Adwords, where you can purchase ads on welding websites (that participate in the Google advertising program) for reasonable rates per click. Again, it depends on your advertising budget.

We have operated http://www.weldingjobs.com/ since 1999 and can tell you from experience that it is very important to get the right Domain Name for your product or service. This helps immensely in being ranked in the first page or not. WeldingJobs.com is currently offering advertising space for welding companies, if interested contact us at sastha.com.

Magnetic Impelled Arc Butt Welding (MIAB)

Magnetic Impelled Arc Butt welding or MIAB welding is used to weld tubular components made from ferrous metals. (photo courtesy KUKA). The process has several advantages compared to other competing technologies mainly:

- High Welding Speeds
- Small bead and low distortion compared to friction welding or arc welding
- Relatively small forging forces compared to friction welding
- No moving parts or moving arc by magnetic field around the tube

The process has niche application and hence there are not too many equipment makers. The major supplier is KUKA and another smaller supplier is Diverse. See equipment details. One of the knocks on this process is high initial investment for equipment.

If you are looking to weld tubular parts made from steel, check this process out.

Internet Advertising up 15.2% in 2008 - How does this affect Welding Businesses?

Internet advertising is up by 15% in the first six months of 2008.
To view the complete report http://www.iab.net/media/file/IAB_PWC_2008_6m.pdf

If you are in the welding business, how does this affect you? Obviously times are tough right now and advertising budgets are under pressue. To get the most value for your money you should be looking for the best ROI (Return on Investment) in advertising.

Small businesses and large should be looking for ways to advertise online and look for welding industry websites that are serving the community. Advertising either placing Text Links or Banner Ads are common methods to bring in traffic to your website. Websites are selling their ad space for such advertising (WeldingJobs.com). Also, you can look at Google Adwords where you could target specific keywords that are relevant to your welding business. Google would place your text and banner ads on welding related websites and you pay for every click on your ad.

The time is now, for advertising online if you haven't done it yet. Here are some additional information.

Find out how much a clik costs on Google Adwords for welding related keywords..
https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

Use welding related keywords and find trends in search
http://www.google.com/trends

Welding business involved in welding supplies, welding equipment or any welding related business looking at ways at improving their online presence or increase online customers, feel free to contact me for solutions. Sastha.com

Welding in Battery Mfg. - Nimh (Nickel Metal Hydride)

Batteries for electric cars or hybrid vehicles are a hot field right now due to the global fuel issues. What should be interesting for folks is that there is a heck a lot welding in batteries.




I had the opportunity to work on Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMh)battery manufacturing and was involved in developing and implementing some of the welding processes. The materials involved are exotic such as Nickel foam, Nickel Wire Mesh, Copper and welding becomes a challenge due to the sheer limitations of the components involved.

How do you weld Nickel sheet electrodes to Nickel Foam (spongy) using resistance welding? Typical resistance welding (AC) works quite well except its a challenge to ensure contact between tips and parts. Our goal was to be able to achieve good electrical conductivity and maintain suffient pull and peel strength.

Welding nickel leads to copper terminals in the battery was challenging until laser welding came about. The leads were quite thick and the laser was the best option to get enough penetration and produce a weld with the copper terminal. Ni and Cu do not produce any intermetallics and hence the welds very sound.

In short, the sheer volume of electrodes in a battery cell is large and it is an interesting challege for welding engineers.

Magnetic Pulse Welding (MPW)

(Coutesy from Pulsar.co.il)

During my years as an advanced technology engineer, had the opportunity to work on magnetic pulse welding development. We were doing a thorough research on this technology to understand its capabilities and limitations for tubular applications.

Magnetic Pulse Welding is very similar to Magnetic Pulse Forming, expect the process occurs much quicker in welding. Forming is typically in hundreds of microseconds versus welding is in tens of microseconds and this is the challenge for equipment makers. Forming has been done and there are a few equipment makers for large aluminum tubular components but welding is still a relatively new area. The limitation is the equipment, coil design and the ability to handle large currents through cable connections.


Magnetic Pulse Welding technology can also be applied for dissimilar metals such as aluminum to steel and we were succesful in testing such components. However, when you weld dissimilar metals, there is always the issue of galvanic corrosion and intermetallics that you need to pay attention to that could affect structural properties depending on the application.

Here are some websites with more information:

MPW Research

Pulsar, Israel

Maxwell Magneform, USA

What's new in Welding?

I have been in welding engineering for a while but also have been out of it for the last few years. We know there are new developments all the time in Arc Weldiing, Spot Welding and Laser Welding.

Specifically, Laser Welding has been a very hot field (pardon the pun) with a lot of new activities such as Diode Lasers, Fiber Lasers and Laser/MIG hybrids etc. Diode lasers were very interesting but the power density was not quite there to handle welding. Fiber lasers were very attractive due to small package but again the power density was still a question.

Check out these laser sites for more information.
Trumpf.com
Rofin Sinar
Fraunhofer USA

Post your comments if you are using lasers in welding. We would like to know.

Welders

Think Big and Build from There.
Kewaunee Fabrications LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation Company is a top-quality, heavy fabrication specialist, including fabrication for manufacturing, engineering, cutting, forming, welding, machining, blasting, painting and assembly. We have immediate openings for Welders in our Kewaunee WI facility.
WELDERS-FIRST AND SECOND SHIFT - (Steel and Aluminum)
Earn $16.06 to $18.66
Requirements Include:
Basic welding and fitting to D1.1 specifications and related metal work. Average blueprint reading skills, mechanical and mathematical skills. Applicants with aluminum welding experience a plus. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age with a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent. Starting wages will be based on experience with an additional $.50 for second shift premium.
Employment offered to applicants responding to this ad will be temporary, and at this time we are not offering permanent employment. Please take note that there is a strike at the Kewaunee location where the positions in this advertisement are located.
Kewaunee Fabrications offers a competitive wage and benefits package. Qualified candidates will be required to pass a fit/weld test.
For more information or to apply, please visit:
www.kewauneefabrications.com
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

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Welders

Title: WELDERSCity of Job: SF Bay AreaZip Code of Job: 94587 County of Job: Alameda Experience Required: 5 years Education Required: High School/GED Number of Openings: Up to 10 Job Start Date: ImmediateRate of Pay: $17.00 to 27.00/hour, depending on experience, negotiable Shift: Day Duration: Long Term Hours Per Week: 40plus OT/DTCalifornia Driver's License: C (passenger car) Status: Open -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Duties: We are a company located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We currently have many open positions for Welders of all types. The current types and openings we have are as follows: Marine Welders - Must be able to pass a 4G test for structural steel and heavy aluminum MIG welding. You will be asked to work 40 to 60 hours a week and must be able to work in tight spaces. Previous 4G certifications in Aluminum welding and Steel welding is required. Structural Welders - Able to work well alone, have current certification papers for Flux Core 232 and 7018 all position unlimited thickness, also stick welding, and be able to read blueprints. You must be able to weld using a Lincoln wire fed welding system. Someone that has at least 5-10 years experience. You must also be willing to work overtime, and be presentable to our customers. Pipefitter/Boiler Welders - Must have a 6G SMAW pipe welding certification. Experience working in the boiler industry is a plus but not required. This job involves welding and pipe fitting for the manufacture and repair of boilers. These positions are all long term opportunities for the right candidates. It is extremely important that you can present your current certifications at the time you apply for the position. The certifications do not all have to be current, but they must be recent and you must be ready to pass a welding test to renew your certification. Compensation packages include salary ($17 - $27/hour) plus benefits. Qualified candidates are encouraged to contact Gabe, Rod, Heather, or Gabriel at (510) 476-1190 for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to apply: Mail résumé to: Workers.com Attn: Gabe, Rod, Heather, or Gabriel 32145 Alvarado- Niles Road #205 Union City CA 94587 Report in person: Please Fax Resume, Or Call For Appt. Contact: Gabe, Rod, Heather, Or Gabriel Contact Phone: Gabe, Rod, Heather, or Gabriel (510)476-1190 Fax: Gabe, Rod, Heather, or Gabriel (510)476-1199 E-Mail: ucresumes@workers.com Website: http://www.workers.com

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