Welding Fabricator

Position Overview

Welding Fabricators use a variety of raw materials and tools to prepare, weld, and fabricate metal structures and components. Responsibilities include reading and understanding assembly instructions or engineering blueprints, fabricating metal components or structures, adhering to a production schedule, and ensuring that parts are properly fitted, aligned, and secured.

The Welding Fabricators will report to the Fabrication Supervisor. The position requires a full-time work week spent in the shop in Mooresville, NC. Production hours are Monday through Thursday 6:00am-4:30pm. Flexibility to work additional hours as required to meet project deadlines is expected. Travel is not expected to be a part of the job requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Reading and interpreting product schematics, assembly instructions, engineering blueprints, and welding symbols.
• Verifying dimensions and product specifications
• Measuring and marking out cutting and bending lines on material
• Setting up and operating metalwork machinery including rollers, drill presses, tubing bending, brakes, and shears, horizontal bandsaw, vertical bandsaw.
• Ensuring that all parts are properly fitted, aligned, and secured
• Effectively manage and plan work to accomplish assigned tasks with minimal supervision
• Maintain and clean shop equipment and tools to ensure they are always kept in safe and usable condition
• Be willing and able to pivot to provide support to other departments in Production.
• Ensure that work conditions are safe and efficient

Skills and Qualifications Required

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Demonstrated (3+ years) welding experience (Mig, TIG, and plasma cutting) on various materials (Steel, Chrome moly, aluminum alloys etc.) preferred.
• Proficiency with metal fabrication tools including shears, rollers, plasma cutting, tube benders, and drill presses, various saws, CNC press brake, CNC plasma cutting.
• Aptitude in using various mechanical hand tools and precision measurement tools
• Knowledge of basic mathematical and computer skills.
• Demonstrate dependability, thoroughness, and excellent verbal communication skills
• Ability to follow established procedures and practices; read instructions, and blueprints etc.
• A strong commitment to all health and safety guidelines
• Excellent problem-solving/troubleshooting skills
• Keen attention to detail
• Be able to achieve weld certification.
• U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance, if required for the position.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of standing, sitting, lifting.
• Must be able to lift 45 pounds at times.
• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization's facilities.

The MSI Operating Code

Every employee at MSI is expected to operate in accordance with the MSI Operating Code. These seven principles define how we think, decide, and execute. They are not aspirational. They are the working standard by which all employees are evaluated.

The Seven Principles

• Own It. If a problem touches your function, it is yours until it is solved or explicitly transferred. Do not wait. Do not delegate upward. Do not hide behind process. Ownership means driving to resolution, not monitoring status.
• Kill the Wrong Fight. Before optimizing a solution, question whether the problem is yours to solve. If an opportunity requires MSI to become something we are not, kill it fast. The discipline to say no is what protects our ability to say yes to the right things.
• Move Before You're Told. Speed is MSI's compounding advantage. We move when directionally correct and adjust in motion. Leaders who wait for permission are not leading. We would rather correct a fast decision than wait for a perfect one.
• Solve Before You Contract. Prove the integration works before formalizing the relationship. Capability first, paperwork follows. Working capability is the strongest negotiating position and the most honest form of business development.
• Integrate First. MSI's moat is not any single technology. It is the ability to integrate modular systems faster and more effectively than anyone else. Every decision should reinforce our position as the integration hub.
• Say It Now. Silence is not alignment. If you disagree, say so, with data, with reasoning, and with an alternative path. Passive execution is institutional risk.
• Build Beyond Yourself. If your function depends on your presence to operate, you have not built anything. Develop your people. Document your processes. Create depth that survives your absence.

Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Parental and Maternity Leave
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off – 120 hours per year to start (prorated in first year of employment)
• Continuing Education
• Annual Year End Paid Holiday Closure
• Employer Paid Uniforms

Classification

• Position is full-time, Non-Exempt

MSI Defense Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.