Vessel Welder

Company Overview

Org Marketing Statement

Welcome to Parker Industrial Process Filtration. At Parker’s Industrial Process Filtration Division, we collaborate with our customers to offer filtration solutions for complex contaminant management issues. Our aim is to enhance product quality and safeguard critical equipment against maintenance issues and downtime. The Industrial Process Filtration Division directly supports North America and works with our global Parker Hannifin regional entities to leverage IPF products worldwide.

• Set up and operate specified welding machines, tools and equipment, with assistance from Supervisor, Lead, or support personnel.
• Read production orders to verify quality standards for specifications, processes and procedures.
• Monitor welding machine operation, performance and accuracy.
• Verify that vessels, materials, parts, procedures and processes conform to applicable work instructions.
• Follow special handling, documentation and traceability procedures for materials with Lot designations.
• Verify finished product meets specifications.
• Complete necessary documentation for welding procedure specifications, requirements and results.
• Use overhead crane, rollers, hoist or forklift, as necessary, to position and/or move product, as required.
• Assist in diagnosing vessel, materials, machinery, equipment or tool problems and resolve, as necessary.
• Perform preventive maintenance and calibration processes on specified machines, tools and equipment, with assistance.
• Follow directions and perform tasks as assigned by Lead and Supervisors.
• Ensure that work, staging and storage areas are safe and clean.
• Follow the 5S system.

• Welding machine.
• Hoist.
• Overhead crane.
• Forklift.
• Oxy. fuel cutting torch.
• Rollers.
• Pneumatic hand tools.
• Basic hand tools.

• Six months to one year welding experience in pressure vessel shop, preferred.
• Ability to perform x-ray quality welds.
• FCAW, MIG, SMAW welding processes, required; SAW and TIG, a plus.
• Ability to pass prescribed welding procedure tests in accordance with ASME Section VIII.
• Basic knowledge of reading blueprints, specifically symbols used for welding instructions, preferred.
• Basic knowledge of pneumatic hand tools, cutting torch, hoist, forklift and overhead crane, preferred.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as work instructions, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Forklift operation, ability to pass an in-house certification and clean driving record, a plus.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to read a standard tape measure.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• High School Diploma and/or GED.
• Six (6) months to one (1) year welding experience in pressure vessel, successful completion of a technical welder training program or an equivalent combination of experience and education, preferred.

• Stand for long periods.
• Bend, stoop, walk, kneel, crouch, carry and climb.
• Use hands and/or arms to finger, handle, feel and reach.
• Talk and hear.
• Frequently, lift and/or move 1 to 20 pounds, and occasionally, up to 50 pounds.
• Work from elevated platforms and/or ladders.
• Use specific vision faculties which include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at  or @parkerhannifin.

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