**Job Description**

Lays out, assembles, installs, and maintains pipe systems, pipe supports, and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, lubricating, sprinkling, and industrial production and processing systems by performing the following duties.

**Responsibilities**

+ Obtains specified electrode and inserts electrode into portable holder or threads consumable electrode wire through portable welding gun.
+ Connects cables from welding unit to obtain amperage, voltage, slope, and pulse, as specified by Welding Engineer or Welding Technician.
+ Starts power supply to produce electric current.
+ Strikes (forms) arc which generates heat to melt and deposit metal from electrode to work piece and join edges of work piece.
+ Manually guides electrode or gun along weld line, maintaining length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead, as judged from color of metal, sound of weld, an...