spot welder
Code 7212.3.4
Spot welders set up and tend spot welding machines designed to press and join metal workpieces together. The metal resistance to the passage of electrical current and the subsequent heat created in the process allows for the local melting and joining of the parts.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- electric current
- spot welding machine parts
- quality standards
- types of metal
Skills and competences
- supply machine
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- apply spot welding techniques
- monitor gauge
- spot metal imperfections
- ensure equipment availability
- set up the controller of a machine
- prepare pieces for joining
- troubleshoot
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- perform test run
- wear appropriate protective gear
Transversal competences
- ensure correct metal temperature
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences