Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender Set up, operate, or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser-beam machines.
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender is Also Know as
In different settings, Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender is titled as
- Braze Operator
- Finishing Technician
- Machine Operator
- Mig Welder
- Robot Operator
- Spot Welder
Education and Training of Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
- Bachelor in Welding Technology/Welder
- Associate Degree Courses in Welding Technology/Welder
- Masters Degree Courses in Welding Technology/Welder
Training Required for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender in different industries are
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Millwrights
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Machinists
What Do Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender do?
- Turn and press knobs and buttons or enter operating instructions into computers to adjust and start welding machines.
- Set up, operate, or tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
- Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components.
- Give directions to other workers regarding machine set-up and use.
- Correct problems by adjusting controls or by stopping machines and opening holding devices.
- Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices.
- Record operational information on specified production reports.
- Start, monitor, and adjust robotic welding production lines.
- Read blueprints, work orders, or production schedules to determine product or job instructions or specifications.
- Assemble, align, and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components.
- Lay out, fit, or connect parts to be bonded, calculating production measurements, as necessary.
- Conduct trial runs before welding, soldering, or brazing, and make necessary adjustments to equipment.
- Dress electrodes, using tip dressers, files, emery cloths, or dressing wheels.
- Remove completed workpieces or parts from machinery, using hand tools.
- Observe meters, gauges, or machine operations to ensure that soldering or brazing processes meet specifications.
- Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, or stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Select torch tips, alloys, flux, coil, tubing, or wire, according to metal types or thicknesses, data charts, or records.
- Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics.
- Prepare metal surfaces or workpieces, using hand-operated equipment, such as grinders, cutters, or drills.
- Clean, lubricate, maintain, and adjust equipment to maintain efficient operation, using air hoses, cleaning fluids, and hand tools.
- Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, or shut-off.
- Tend auxiliary equipment used in welding processes.
- Devise or build fixtures or jigs used to hold parts in place during welding, brazing, or soldering.
- Fill hoppers and position spouts to direct flow of flux or manually brush flux onto seams of workpieces.
- Transfer components, metal products, or assemblies, using moving equipment.
- Add chemicals or materials to workpieces or machines to facilitate bonding or to cool workpieces.
- Mark weld points and positions of components on workpieces, using rules, squares, templates, or scribes.
- Anneal finished workpieces to relieve internal stress.
- Immerse completed workpieces into water or acid baths to cool and clean components.
Qualities of Good Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Arc welding equipment
- Ball peen hammers
- Bench vises
- Brazing machines
- Brazing robots
- C clamps
- Center punches
- Chipping hammers
- Claw hammers
- Cold-welding machines
- Computerized numerical control CNC oxy-fuel systems
- Desktop computers
- Dial calipers
- Diffusion-welding machines
- Face masks
- Fillet weld gauges
- Gas welding torches
- Hand clamps
- Hand scrapers
- Heating furnaces
- Hydraulic booms
- Hydraulic winches
- Laser cutters
- Laser-beam machines
- Layout squares
- Magnifiers
- Measuring tapes
- Micrometers
- Outside micrometer calipers
- Portable welding machines
- Power grinders
- Power hoists
- Product loading equipment
- Resistance welding guns
- Resistance welding machines
- Rulers
- Safety gloves
- Safety goggles
- Side cutting pliers
- Single-cut mill saw files
- Slip joint pliers
- Soldering machines
- Soldering robots
- Spot welding guns
- Tongs
- Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
- Undercut gauges
- Vernier micrometers
- Vise grip pliers
- Walk-behind lift trucks
- Welding electrodes
- Welding helmets
- Welding robots
- Welding tip cleaning files
- Welding tip dressers
- Welding torch tips
- Wire brushes
- Workpiece positioning jigs
Technology Skills required for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tender
- Email software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Linux
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft operating system
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- SAP software
- Spreadsheet software
- Tool center point TCP setting software
- Word processing software