Arc Welder

The Arc Welding Supervisor oversees welding crews engaged in the fabrication, erection, repair, and inspection of metal structures and pipelines using SMAW techniques. This role ensures compliance with safety, quality, and schedule requirements, while supporting NDT inspections and guiding welder performance.

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

1. 🛠️ Supervision of Welding Activities

• Assign and monitor welding tasks for a team of junior and senior welders

• Ensure welders follow WPS (Welding Procedure Specification) for each joint

• Manage all-position welds (1G–6G), including structural and pressure welds

2. 📋 Planning & Coordination

• Plan daily welding schedules based on project milestones

• Coordinate with foremen, fitters, riggers, and QA/QC teams to avoid delays

• Allocate manpower and equipment (machines, electrodes, grinders) effectively

3. 🧪 Quality Assurance

• Inspect joint preparation, root gap, fit-up, and preheating requirements before welding

• Liaise with QA/QC inspectors and NDT teams for weld testing (RT, UT, MPI, DPI)

• Ensure defect rates remain minimal and oversee corrective welding if required

4. 📈 Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain welder qualification records, weld maps, and daily progress sheets

• Record consumable usage (electrode batch, type, lot number)

• Submit daily welding logs, repair logs, and time sheets

5. 👨‍🏫 Mentoring & Safety

• Train junior welders on best practices, correct welding posture, and WPS adherence

• Conduct toolbox talks focused on hot work safety, PPE compliance, fume control

• Enforce safe work practices in confined spaces, elevated platforms, or hot zones

🎯 Key Focus Areas:

• ✅ High-quality, defect-free welding execution

• ✅ Schedule adherence with minimal rework

• ✅ Safety compliance during all welding and grinding tasks

• ✅ Skilled team development and welder performance tracking

• ✅ Interface with QA/QC, Planning, and HSE departments

🧰 Tools & Equipment Supervised:

• SMAW welding sets (DC/AC)

• Electrodes: E6010, E7018, E8018, etc.

• Angle grinders, clamps, welding jigs, welding gauges

• PPE: welding masks, gloves, jackets, safety boots, fire blankets

📊 Performance Metrics (KPIs):

• Weld pass rate (NDT acceptance rate)

• Productivity: weld inches per day per welder

• Consumable usage per weld joint

• Safety compliance (hot work permit closure, incident-free hours)

• Team attendance, discipline, and training hours

🧠 Core Competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of welding symbols, codes, and inspection procedures

• Team leadership and task delegation

• Conflict resolution between fit-up teams and welders

• Documentation accuracy and reporting discipline

• Adaptability to different base metals and joint configurations

🚧 Work Conditions:

• Working in fabrication shops, shutdown sites, offshore rigs, or oil refineries

• Exposure to heat, sparks, fumes, noise, and sometimes confined spaces

• Must be available for night shifts, weekend work, or emergency repairs

• Will need to walk through scaffolding or elevated structures (with safety gear)