Metal Fabricator

Wisestep - Winchester, VA

Full-time

Winchester, VA

About the position

The Metal Fabricator role involves building high-quality grout mixers, pumps, and cement silos. The position requires reading and interpreting engineering blueprints, fabricating metal components, and performing quality checks on finished products. The role also includes setting up fabricating machines and designing custom templates as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality grout mixers, pumps, and cement silos.
• Read and interpret engineering blueprints.
• Construct base templates, if necessary.
• Measure and mark out cutting and bending lines.
• Set up metalwork machinery including rollers, drill presses, flame cutters, brakes, and shears.
• Double-check design specifications before commencing with cutting work.
• Fabricate and construct metal components.
• Grind and finish completed products.
• Perform quality checks on completed products.
• Complete job reports.
• Conform with state and company safety regulations.
• Operate company vehicles, including heavy-load transport vehicle to travel locally, regionally, or nationally based on business needs.
• Assemble and test equipment.
• Perform service and maintenance on rental equipment.
• Paint equipment and parts.
• Chip grout and clean post rental equipment.
• Pressure wash and prep equipment for rent or sale.
• Assist with shop maintenance needs.
• Operate forklifts, overhead cranes, and hand trucks.
• Perform cycle counts for inventory control.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED, required.
• Experience in metal fabricating, required.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering blueprints, required.
• Proficiency with metal fabrication tools including shears, rollers, flame cutters, and drill presses, required.
• Strong organization skills with the ability to multi-task, required.
• Good communication skills in being proactive, communicating status, ideas, troubleshooting tasks, required.
• Must possess and maintain in good standing a valid state driver’s license, required.
• Must be DOT eligible, required.
• Ability to operate a computer.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS certification and or advanced welding experience, desired.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering design and manufacturing procedures, preferred.
• Advanced mathematical and engineering skills.
• Own basic tools.