Welding Engineer Job Description
Welding engineer
provides moderately complex to complex welding engineering recommendations for material selection weldability, welding process selection while understanding the metallurgy of selected welding processes.
Welding Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Research and develop innovative welding methods that enable lightweight vehicle construction
Deliver welding processes suitable for high volume automotive body construction applications
Design experiments and conduct statistical analyses of data to optimize welding process parameters
Characterize capability of novel supplier welding systems
Conducts welding process assessments using a standardized assessment tool
Drive the NA welding-process business plan
Develop and deliver technical training materials and plans for standards, manufacturing assessments, manufacturing Health Charts and implementation of advanced technologies
Provide technical leadership at Ford suppliers that have welding-related manufacturing processes
Provide sourcing guidance with potential suppliers by evaluation of welding-related technologies
Ensure compliance with established welding procedures, restrictions, and standards
Welding Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Welding Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CWI, II, AWS, NDT, VT, NDE, IWE, ASME, ISO, SS
Education for Welding Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the welding engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Engineering, Welding, Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical, Education, Engineering Technology, Construction, Metallurgical Engineering
Skills for Welding Engineer
Desired skills for welding engineer include:
Commercial
Military welding qualification and fabrication specifications through practical experience
School classes
GMAW
Metallurgy
Production specifications
Materials
Properties and characteristics of metals and metal alloys
Welding
ASME
Desired experience for welding engineer includes:
Evaluate capability and trade-offs associated with competing joining processes
Conduct balanced portfolio of long-term research, shorter-term advanced development, and corporate support
Identify and implement novel weld process improvements and protect intellectual property
Develop signal processing algorithms to characterize weld controller outputs and map to destructive measures of weld quality
Implement and validate closed-loop control algorithms to affect improved RSW quality and consistency
Support plant trials of new technology
Welding Engineer Examples
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Welding Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a welding engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for welding engineer
- Support the maintenance and management of PG&E welding programs for Diablo Canyon nuclear facility, fossil/hydro-generation and gas operations
- Track welding defects and investigate causes
- Participate in up-front project planning for all welding operations
- Acting as Delegated person to lead all activities related to welding/brazing and representing the plant in front of the external auditors and company global Brazing Network of Excellence
- Managing, doing engineering supervision, coordination and inspection of outsourced welding and internal brazing works in relation to industrial standards EN ISO 14 731, implementation and maintaining requirements of industrial standards EN ISO 3834, EN15085 into production process
- Be a subject matter expert in all facets of welding processes
- Drive Ford’s “Prevent Recurrence” strategy by developing and using global manufacturing process standards, lessons learned, best practices, and implementing technical innovations
- Demonstrate special process technical problem solving for significant quality issues (Stop Ships/Field Actions), improving supplier capacity, or assisting warranty improvement teams
- Interface with Product Development for design for manufacturing feasibility input
- This position offers the opportunity to work with highly motivated and experienced engineers within Ford Supplier Technical Assistance while learning about and developing new tools and procedures Ford will use to design future vehicles
Qualifications for welding engineer
- Knowledge of signal processing and feature extraction methods
- Proficiency with statistical analysis packages (preferred)
- Familiarity with weld quality operating systems and joint quality requirements
- Willing and capable of travelling throughout the Americas region (USA, Canada and Mexico) and globally, when needed)
- Knowledge of weld cross-sectional examination techniques
- Proficient with team oriented problem solving skills
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of welding engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for welding engineer
- Directs, Develops and trains Welding Technicians in all welding functions
- Provide technical support and SME advice for all materials, welding and NDT matters – with consideration to quality and productivity
- Take ownership of nonconformities related to materials/welding and participate in RCFA to determine the scope and extent of any defects, and to identify correction and corrective actions
- Participate during audits and conduct site surveillances to ensure that all materials, welding and NDT requirements are adequately maintained and implemented at fabrication shop/ workshop and site
- Develop and deliver subject-matter training programs related to materials, welding and NDT to promote awareness and industry best-practice, in accordance with international codes & standards and Client technical specifications
- Provides oversight, direction and management of a variety of technical improvement and cost reduction projects assigned to the Welding Team while also maintaining schedules and cost in addition to evaluating associated risks
- Responsible for all Assembly welding processes and process documentation
- Face to the customer / inspection authority for technical Welding issues
- Identify and evaluate new / best technology for project execution for welding and heat treatment
- Develop and maintain the company welding and NDT-related quality control procedures
Qualifications for welding engineer
- Effective oral and written communication skills to all levels (plant floor or executive managers)
- Participate in lean manufacturing events
- Has a working knowledge of automation used in manufacturing, robotics, conveyors, pick and place devices
- Knowledge of 1E0099, 1E2111, and H2.2
- Troubleshoot equipment downtime when hourly leadership can not find resolution
- Work with hourly leadership to determine true root cause and implement robust countermeasures
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of welding engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for welding engineer
- Debugs welding issues with delivered robotic cells
- Make FAI of tanks (welding, painting, design and dimensional aspect) and make the follow-up until the official validation of the product
- Establish the documents of soldering (WPS, welding plan, plan and forms of control)
- Assure the special processes "Welding" and "Brazing" (establish/maintain the requirements, assure that the processes are followed in the workshop at the supplier)
- Improve permanently its skills in the field of railway welding
- Teach hourly operators basic problem solving skills to increase self reliance
- Manage capital projects effectively
- Lead teams to help identify, reduce, and eliminate waste
- Identify cost savings projects and see them through implementation
- Drive New Model line changes on impacted equipment from conception to launch
Qualifications for welding engineer
- Responsible for safety, quality, and delivery for several processes that are critical to our department which runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Working with our hourly leadership to solve daily problems and implement solutions that are robust to various operators and address root cause
- Able to identify areas of opportunity to reduce waste through daily interactions with the processes
- Formal leadership experience would be an asset
- Registered as a Professional Engineer (P
- Knowledge of ASME codes related to pressure vessel and piping design would be an asset
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Welding Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of welding engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for welding engineer
- Research new Welding Technology
- Cooperation with design engineering – verification of design proposal, evaluation of manufacturability, proposing of design improvements (VAVE)
- Cooperation with production – training of employees for new processes/equipments, verification of technological discipline, solving of technological issues to ensure continuity of the production process
- Managing of technological projects – implementation of new technologies and techniques
- Ability to work without supervision and to provide technical consultation and strategic guidance
- Works with exempt and nonexempt staff to ensure written work directions are generated and available in the manufacturing execution system
- Work closely with product engineering to develop new products
- Provide direct technical support to the production team for machinery and equipment
- Specify and procure new equipment, tooling, and technology needed to meet production and quality requirements
- Drive continuous improvement and change across three (3) shifts
Qualifications for welding engineer
- 3 years of manufacturing experience in welding-related processes
- Exceptionally strong safety mindset
- Experience working with Welding Fixtures (or Torch Weld Jigs - TWJ), setting weldments up for exact weld shrinkages to fit TWJ, post weld
- Process capability and statistical analysis experience
- Previous experience developing weld schedules for Manual, Orbital, Automatic GTAW and/or E.B
- Basic proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ability to quickly learn other software programs
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Welding Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of welding engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for welding engineer
- Plan and conduct the analysis, inspection, design, test, and/or integration of production Stampings, laser welding processes to ensure product quality
- Manage team of quality technicians and inspector for welding operation
- Shall actively participate in supplier selection, equipment design review & price negotiation
- Leads and/or participates in cost reduction and capital programs
- All tasks undertaken will be addressed in line with defined M.E
- Support R+D initiatives around new material investigation
- Develop and follow up the quality of tanks and other material suppliers (railway applications) in relation with the team in Geneva
- Statistical Process Control and incoming and process inspection
- Painting inspection and supplier audits
- CAPA (corrective and Preventive action)
Qualifications for welding engineer
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Metallurgy
- Familiarity working with electronic planning instructions, drawings, specifications and other pertinent documents such as weld parameters
- Experience working with Torch Weld Jigs (TWJ) , setting weldments up for exact shrinkages to fit TWJ post weld
- Previous experience developing weld parameters for manual and In-Place-Tube or Automatic G.T.A
- Familiarity working with electronic planning, drawings, and pertinent documents such as weld parameters
- Writing weld machine specifications