About This Role
This role involves studying and interpreting blueprints to fabricate frameworks or shells for machinery and mineral processing equipment. The fabricator assembles tools and materials, verifies specifications, and troubleshoots malfunctions, ensuring a clean and safe working environment.
Responsibilities
- Study and interpret blueprints
- Fabricate frameworks or shells for machinery and mineral processing equipment
- Listen to directions from supervisors
- Organize all required parts and assemble tools and materials
- Interpret measurements
- Verify specifications
- Assemble components
- Troubleshoot malfunctions and perform repairs as needed
- Ensure working environment is clean and safe
- Complete quality control forms
- Maintain safe operations by adhering to FLSmidth safety procedures and regulations
- Maintain equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions
- Maintain continuity among work shifts by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs
- Document actions by completing production and quality logs
- Cross-train in other areas at the company
Requirements
- 4 years of experience
- Understanding of basic fabricating and welding techniques
- Ability to interpret blueprints
- Experience in fitting and tacking carbon steel
- Plate and structural steel fabrication essential
- Ability to follow written or verbal instructions
- Knowledge of health and safety requirements including but not limited to fire hazards, compressed gases
- Computer skills: ability to use the computer for time tracking purposes
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Regularly required to stand; use hands and fingers, hand to, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear
- Frequently required to walk
- Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
- Exposed to fumes and may at times be required to wear a respirator
- Occasionally work at heights using the correct PPE
- Work in an environment with noise levels typically associated with a manufacturing facility
