Aerospace Welder - Orbital Tube
maania
- Location
- Briggs, TX
- Employment type
- full_time
- Source
- jazzhr
Required Skills, Experience, and Education:
- 3 or more years of hands-on orbital welding experience.
- Ability to perform orbital welding independently with minimal supervision.
- Strong manual GTAW welding skills, including hand fitting and tack welding.
- Experience in hand-bending and facing tubing to specification.
- Experience welding to AWS D17.1 or equivalent aerospace standards.
- Ability to read and interpret aerospace 2D and 3D drawings.
- Experience performing visual and borescope inspections.
- Proficiency with fabrication shop equipment (band saws, grinders, sanders, drills, etc.).
- Experience using precision measurement tools (calipers, height gauges, scales, etc.).
- Strong attention to detail, workmanship, and cleanliness.
- Ability to support 1st shift assignments (7 am - 3:30 pm CT) and overtime, as needed.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted.
- Ability to stand for extended periods (minimum 8 hours).
- Ability to stoop, bend, crawl, and work in confined spaces.
- Experience with propulsion or high-pressure fluid systems.
- Prior experience supporting aerospace flight hardware or test systems.
- Certification from an orbital welding training program.
- AWS D17.1 GTAW welding certification.
- Familiarity with aerospace fittings such as AN and NPT.
- Experience cleaning tubing systems to aerospace or medical cleanliness standards.
- Experience in inspecting tube assemblies using vector measuring machines.