Job Description

LAUKOA is seeking a highly experienced Welder to support fabrication, repair, installation, and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) activities at Tyndall Air Force Base. The Welder plans and executes complex welding and metal-fabrication assignments from technical drawings, specifications, and work orders; produces high-integrity welds on a wide range of metals and alloys; and fabricates, repairs, and installs structures, components, equipment, and test articles. This hands-on role requires advanced proficiency across multiple welding processes, precision layout and shop mathematics, use of specialized welding and sheet-metal equipment, and on-site evaluation of structural damage and repair requirements. The Welder will also maintain accurate work-order documentation and provide qualified backup support to machining and sheet-metal fabrication operations as needed.

• Summary of Duties:
  • Plan and lay out welding assignments from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders for installation facilities and R&D items
  • Apply oxyacetylene, electrode arc, submerged arc, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, metal spray arc, spot, and stud welding to join common metals and alloys, including dissimilar metals; weld structures, plates, sheet metal, castings, forgings, pipes, boilers, shafts, turbines, valves, caissons, and tanks; produce water- and air-tight welds with complete penetration and fusion, including in hard-to-reach positions
  • Prepare welding surfaces; set up clamp fixtures and devise special jigs and fixtures
  • Visiting worksites to analyze, evaluate, and classify structural sheet metal damage; adjust job layout based on on-site inspection; compute irregular curves, angles, and pitch with complicated shop mathematics; determine materials, tools, and equipment
  • Develop patterns and cut, form, join, assemble, and install items with combined straight/curved edges and irregular angles; apply radial-line and parallel-line development; fabricate dovetailed, set-in-bottom, burred-bottom, wire, and lock seams; fabricate templates
  • Operate and maintain slip roll forming machines, box and pan brakes, rotary machines, crimping/burring/turning/beading machines, hydraulic press brake, shears, form roller, hand brakes, drill press, saws, punches, plate roll, and soldering/welding equipment; update the work order system to completion
  • Provide backup capability in the Machinist and Sheet Metal Fabricator areas

• Required Qualifications:
  • 10 years' experience as a welder who has designed or participated in the design of new or improved items
  • Knowledge of aluminum, stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material, and alloys; of a wide range of welding principles and difficult techniques requiring complete penetration and fusion; and of welding standards and metal reactions to welding processes
  • Knowledge of related metal trades: brazing, soldering, flame- and arc-cutting, surface hardening, annealing, and metal spraying
  • Skill in reading blueprints, diagrams, sketches, and technical specifications; complicated shop mathematics; structural damage evaluation
  • Skill with complicated hand and power tools and precision measuring instruments
  • NACI; DoD CAC;
  • Valid state driver's license;
  • U.S. person only

LAUKOA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/VEVRAA federal contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

LAUKOA offers a best-in-class benefits program including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) program with employer match; paid vacation and sick leave; employer-paid basic life and AD&D insurance; an Employee Assistance Program; and a flexible work environment. Additionally, employees can choose from several voluntary benefits including critical illness coverage; accident insurance; identity theft coverage; pet insurance, and more.

LAUKOA gives preference to internal candidates. If no internal candidate meets our qualifications, external candidates will be given consideration.