Description

Position:  Fitter-Welder – Senior

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $80,000.00 to $85,000.00 plus superannuation per annum

Location: Ballarat VIC 3350

Our client is seeking an experienced Fitter-Welder to join their workshop. Your role will be to fit and assemble and weld metal parts and subassemblies to fabricate machinery and other equipment.

Tasks required include:

• Follow established procedures and workflows
• Maintain an effective relationship with customers
• Preparing quotes based on drawings and specifications supplied by customers; this may include greenfield or brownfield projects or maintaining/overhauling/improving existing plant and equipment
• Assisting customers to diagnose faults in existing machinery and to offer suggestions to repair, improve performance or suggest alternatives as per customer requirements/limitations
• Perform maintenance (both in workshop and on site) on machinery and hydraulic/pneumatic equipment
• Creating drawings and models for jobs based on customer specifications including determination of suitable material types and sequence of operations
• Determination and preparation of appropriate CNC equipment (including presses, rollers, lathes, guillotines etc.) within the workshop to create required parts; preparation includes setting controls, guides and stops both manually and via CNC software settings, and appropriate selection of tooling/dies for parts being created
• Welding assemblies as per drawings; fabricating and fitting fabricated metal parts into products and assembling metal parts and subassemblies to produce machines and equipment and direction of workshop staff to do the same
• Preparation and installation of hydraulic/pneumatic pipes and lines (including bending, cutting, threading)
• Checking of finished work to adhere to ISO9001:2015 Quality Management System in place; this includes use of calibrated measuring devices and following checks and processes
• Site installation of fabricated parts, assemblies and equipment and management of other staff and/or contractors on site.

Requirements:

• Certificate III including at least two years of on-the-job training, or Certificate IV
• At least three years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualifications listed above
• At least 2 years relevant experience
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Knowledge of typical ERP and Production Management software
• Knowledge of Microsoft Project
• Strong knowledge of AutoCAD, Solidworks or similar.