Overview & Salary
Overview
Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
On the job, you would:
- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
Education
- high school diploma/GED
- no high school diploma/GED
Salary
Annual 10th percentile $36,830
Annual median $48,940
Annual 90th percentile $72,970
Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Engineering and Technology
- mechanical
Skills
Basic Skills
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Personality & Abilities
Personality
Realistic
People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Initiative
- Self Control
- Integrity
Abilities
Hand and Finger Use
- keep your arm or hand steady
- put together small parts with your fingers
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems