# Maintenance Trades Helper - Welder Trainee

**Company**: General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
**Location**: Pawcatuck, CT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $15.06 - $20.38
**Category**: Skilled Trades
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), located in Pawcatuck, CT, is seeking a Maintenance Trades Helper - Welder Trainee. The successful candidate will apply basic welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, or repair parts of metal or other weldable materials.

**Job Qualifications:**

- 0-2 years of related experience

- High School Diploma or GED required; Technical or Vocational Training preferred

- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions

- Knowledge of basic welding procedures, geometry, weld shrinkage, welding techniques, and physical properties of metal

- Willingness to invest time and show initiative and quality craftsmanship

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities:**

- Lay out and mark points on parts or subassemblies using rulers, squares, scribes, or templates

- Position pieces to be welded into jigs, holding fixtures, guides, and steps using measuring instruments and hand tools

- Perform work in accordance with established safety procedures

- Read blueprints and drawings and take or read measurements to plan layout and procedures

- Determine the appropriate welding equipment or method based on requirements

- Set up components for welding according to specifications

- Operate angle grinders to prepare parts for welding

- Align components using calipers, rulers, etc., and clamp pieces

- Weld components using manual or semi-automatic welding equipment in various positions (vertical, horizontal, or overhead)

- Repair machinery and other components by welding pieces and filling gaps

- Maintain equipment in a condition that does not compromise safety

**Benefits:**

- Competitive wages

- Opportunities for advancement

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Paid time off

**The likely hourly rate for this position is between $15.06 - $20.38.**

## Skills

### Required
- Blueprints
- Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW)
- Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
- Hand Tools
- Welding Machines
- Sandblasting

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