Trades
General welder
$38.50 hourly
Pay is about the local median for this work ($37.50 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- 2 to 3 years' experience
- No diploma needed
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- 30 hours a week
- Shifts: days
- Full time, Permanent employment
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a three-year apprenticeship program ora combination of over three years of work experience in the trade and some college or industry courses in welding is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
- Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified welders upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Welders (NOC 72106). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Read and interpret blueprints or welding process specifications
- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), plasma arc welding (PAW), shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), oxy-acetylene welding (OAW), resistance welding and submerged arc welding (SAW)
- Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
- Operate brazing and soldering equipment
- Operate metal shaping machines such as brakes, shears and other metal straightening and bending machines
- Repair worn parts of metal products by welding on extra layers.
About the employer
- Industry: Repair and maintenance
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
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From Job Bank.