The posting
Our employer partner is a Automotive Manufacturing company and currently looking to add an experienced Welding Team member to their team!
Job Overview:
The Welding Team Member is responsible for operating and monitoring robotic welding equipment to manufacture automotive components while maintaining safety, quality, and production standards. The role involves inspecting welded parts, verifying equipment performance, identifying defects, troubleshooting process issues, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate and monitor robotic welding equipment to produce automotive components according to established safety, quality, and production standards.
- Load and unload components into welding fixtures, ensuring proper positioning and alignment.
- Perform equipment start-up checks, process verification, and routine quality inspections.
- Inspect welds for defects using visual inspections and required quality checks, including chisel, torque, and shim checks.
- Monitor welding equipment, tooling, sensors, and process parameters to identify abnormalities or quality issues.
- Maintain welding tips and replace worn tips and consumables as required.
- Respond to equipment alarms and process interruptions, following established troubleshooting and escalation procedures.
- Identify, isolate, and document defective products and assist with containment, sorting, repairs, and corrective actions.
- Complete production, quality, and equipment downtime reports accurately.
- Perform routine equipment maintenance and workplace organization activities, including Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and 5S practices.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, product quality, productivity, and equipment reliability.
- Follow standardized work instructions, safety procedures, personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements, and environmental guidelines.
- Support team communication, shift start-up meetings, and the training of new team members.
- Accommodate overtime, weekend shifts, and flexible scheduling as required.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 diploma or equivalent.
- Mechanical aptitude and the ability to operate and monitor automated manufacturing equipment.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to identify welding defects and process abnormalities.
- Ability to follow standardized work instructions, safety procedures, and quality requirements.
- Basic troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment in setting priorities.
- Ability to perform quality inspections and follow established procedures for handling non-conforming products.
- Self-motivated, dependable, and able to complete assigned tasks within required timeframes.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the position, including prolonged standing and walking, repetitive bending and twisting, and lifting parts weighing up to 20 pounds regularly, with occasional lifting of up to 35 pounds.
- Willingness to work in a manufacturing environment with elevated noise levels, welding sparks, fumes, dust, and hot or sharp materials while wearing required PPE.
We thank all applicants interested in this opportunity; however, please note that only selected candidates will be contacted regarding next steps.
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