A professional who repairs welding, burning, and brazing equipment, according to sketches, catalogs, parts lists, and charts. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines equipment and observes operation to detect malfunction.
• Dismantles equipment to remove and replace worn or damaged parts, such as regulator diaphragms, torch tips, pressure springs, gauges, pneumatic cylinders, shunts, hoses, cables, and non-consumable electrodes, using handtools.
• Selects new parts from stock.
• Screws, solders, or brazes parts together to reassemble unit.
• Tests repaired equipment to ensure specified performance.
• Dresses and replaces non-consumable electrodes, using grinding and lapping wheel or tip dressing machine.
• May replace or repair worn or damaged parts of welding and flame cutting machines.
• May issue supplies, such as electrodes, torch tips, weld rods, and fluxes, to welders.
• May change tubes and electrodes of resistance-welding machines.
• May monitor weld current to ensure weld quality.
• May fabricate steel hangers to support manually operated welding guns.