Electron Beam Welder Metal, Machinery & Related Trades Workers

The various processes of welding using electron beams, such as electron beam focusing, beam defelection, penetration, and others.

The steps required through which a material is transformed into a product, its development and full-scale manufacturing.

The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

Method of quality control that uses statistics to monitor processes.

Qualities, specifications, applications and reactions to different fabricating processes of various types of metal, such as steel, aluminium, brass, copper and others.

The various parts of a metalworking machine designed to join metal pieces together using electron beams, such as the vacuum chamber, primary anode, cathode or electron gun, focusing coil, deflection …

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Comply with precision standards specific to an organisation or product in metalworking, involved in processes such as engraving, precise cutting, welding.

Ensure the necessary, usually constant, temperature of processed metal workpieces during metal fabrication processes.

Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

Oversee the data presented by a gauge concerning the measurement of pressure, temperature, thickness of a material, and others.

Perform regular maintenance, possibly including corrections and alterations, on a machine or machine tool to ensure it remains in a proper productive state.

Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its …

Prepare metal or other material workpieces for joining processes by cleaning the workpieces, checking their measurements with the technical plan and marking on the pieces where they'll be joined.

Set up the desired product design in the CNC controller of the CNC machine for product manufacturing.

Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

Evaluate which deficient processed workpieces do not meet the set-up standard and should be removed and sort the waste according to regulations.

Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.

Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.

Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the …

Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

Utilise specialised software tools to generate computer code from specifications, such as diagrams, structured informations or other means of describing functionality.

Use computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programmes to control machinery and machine tools in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation as part of the manufacturing processes of workpieces.

Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.

Maintain the chamber or tank used in production processes to manufacture a workpiece in vacuum by preconditioning it, cleaning it, performing gas purging, changing the door seals, changing the filters, …

Tend a metalworking machine designed to join metal pieces by use of an electron beam exuding a concentrated heat source, monitor and operate it according to regulations.

The different methods of welding together pieces of metal using various equipment, such as oxygen-acetylene welding, gas metal arc welding and tungsten inert gas welding.

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The various technologies used for the joining and assembling of fabricated metal workpieces.

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Understand the principles of electricity and electrical power circuits, as well as the associated risks.

The manufacture of electrical ovens and water heaters by metalworking processes.

The manufacture of steam or other vapour generators, the manufacture of auxiliary plant for use with steam generators: condensers, economisers, superheaters, steam collectors and accumulators. The manufacture of nuclear reactors, …

The manufacture of heavy weapons (artillery, mobile guns, rocket launchers, torpedo tubes, heavy machine guns), small arms (revolvers, shotguns, light machine guns), air or gas guns and pistols, and war …

Tthe qualities and applications of electrical discharge, including voltage and electrodes.

Flow of electric charge, carried by electrons or ions in a medium such as an electrolyte or a plasma.

Various processing methods on iron and iron-containing alloys such as steel, stainless steel and pig iron.

The manufacture of reservoirs, tanks and similar containers of metal, of types normally installed as fixtures for storage or manufacturing use. The manufacture of metal containers for compressed or liquefied …

The manufacture of metal cable, plaited bands and other articles of that typr, uninsulated or insulated cable not capable of being used as a conductor of electricity, coated or cored …

The most optimal rotation or cycle time and over-all quality of a tool or a machine's processes.

Metal processes linked to the different types of metal, such as casting processes, heat treatment processes, repair processes and other metal manufacturing processes.

Apply preparatory treatment, through mechanical or chemical processes, to the workpiece preceding the main operation.

Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical …

Ensure the necessary, usually constant, pressure of gas which is part of a machine or tool, such as torching equipment, used to process metal workpieces during metal fabrication processes.

Use various techniques to ensure the product quality is respecting the quality standards and specifications. Oversee defects, packaging and sendbacks of products to different production departments.

Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect malfunction. Service, repair, adjust, and test machines, parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical principles. Maintain and repair …

Continuously check up on the automated machine's set-up and execution or make regular control rounds. If necessary, record and interpret data on the operating conditions of installations and equipment in …

Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment …

Offer help and advice to service technicians in case of machine malfunctions and other repair tasks.

Keep records of the machine's faults, interventions and irregularities for quality control.

Inspect and smooth burred surfaces of steel and metal parts.

Observe and identify various kinds of imperfections in metal workpieces or finished products. Recognise the best fitted manner of fixing the problem, which could be caused by corrosion, rust, fractures, …

Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.