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Solderer/Brazer

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AVG. SALARY

$47,370

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EDUCATION

High school preferred +

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JOB OUTLOOK

Increasing

What They Do

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers Career Video

About This Career

Uses 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.

This career is part of the Energy cluster Production pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
  • Examines workpieces for defects and measures workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  • Welds separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
  • Selects and installs torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  • Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  • Connects and turns regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  • Determines required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
  • Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
  • Exposure to pollutants, gases, dust, fumes, odors, poor ventilation, etc.
  • Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
  • Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

  • Seeing clearly up close

Work Hours and Travel

  • Overtime work

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • MIG Welder (Metal Inert Gas Welder)
  • TIG Welder (Tungsten Inert Gas Welder)
  • Welder Fitter
  • Assembly Line Brazer
  • Wirer
  • Maintenance Welder
  • Fabrication Welder
  • Welder — Operates welding equipment to weld ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Contact

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    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900

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