Welder Fabricator, Sanitary A

California Dairies, Inc.

Pixley, CA

Pay: $45-$49/hr

Shift: Full time

Join the California Dairies, Inc. (CDI) team, a farmer-owned cooperative dedicated to sustainably producing the highest quality dairy products while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. CDI products are delivered locally and around the world. Nestled in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, our Tipton facility manufactures a diverse range of products, including milk powder, butter, nutritional powders, and processed fluids. We encourage you to be part of our team that's shaping the future of dairy, right from the heart of California!

**Our commitment to CDI employees:**

We believe in valuing our team with a total rewards package that goes beyond the basics. You'll find we offer competitive pay and incentive programs designed to recognize and reward your contributions. Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid time off, sick days & holidays, retirement plans designed to secure your future. We don't stop there. We've also cultivated a variety of valuable programs focused on your personal well-being and professional growth, ensuring you have the support you need to both inside and outside of work.

Job Summary

The Stainless-Steel Welder/Fabricator is responsible for performing high-quality stainless steel welding, fabrication, installation, modification, and repair work throughout the facility. Supporting plant reliability by maintaining sanitary piping, process equipment, platforms, guards, structural components, and other stainless-steel systems. This position requires extensive experience with TIG welding stainless steel, sanitary fabrication practices, pipe fitting, layout, and field installation. All work must meet facility safety, quality, food-safety, and workmanship standards.

Essential Functions

• Perform TIG/GTAW welding on stainless steel piping, tubing, plate, and structural components.
• Fabricate and install sanitary stainless-steel piping and process systems.
• Perform high-quality sanitary welds suitable for food and dairy processing environments.
• Cut, fit, tack, weld, grind, polish, and finish stainless steel components.
• Fabricate equipment supports, platforms, brackets, guards, handrails, piping supports, and other plant components.
• Repair cracked, damaged, leaking, or failed stainless steel equipment and piping.
• Perform pipe fitting, measurements, offsets, layout, and field fabrication.
• Read and interpret drawings, blueprints, sketches, P&IDs, and fabrication specifications.
• Properly purge stainless steel piping when required to protect weld quality and prevent oxidation.
• Maintain proper fit-up, alignment, penetration, and weld appearance.
• Minimize distortion and heat damage during stainless steel fabrication.
• Perform sanitary finishing and polishing as required.
• Assist with equipment installations, modifications, shutdown projects, and plant improvement projects.
• Identify potential equipment or piping problems and communicate concerns before failures occur.
• Work closely with maintenance mechanics, supervisors, engineering, operations, sanitation, and contractors.
• Maintain welding machines, grinders, saws, purge equipment, fabrication tools, and related equipment.
• Maintain an organized and clean welding/fabrication work area.
• Properly account for and communicate material and spare-part usage.
• Follow all plant Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), hot-work, confined-space, fall-protection, PPE, and other safety requirements.
• Follow GMP, food-safety, sanitation, and contamination-control requirements.
• Complete assigned work orders and accurately document completed work.
• Maintain a high standard of workmanship and avoid repeat repairs or callbacks.
• Participate in root-cause identification when recurring equipment or piping failures occur.
• Support emergency repairs and production breakdowns when needed.
• Must have the ability to get along with co-workers, management personnel, customers, vendors, and employees in accordance with the company policies and working rules while ensuring a harmonious and conducive work environment.
• Maintain a positive attitude and contribute toward a quality environment.
• Excellent regular full-time attendance in support of company objectives.
• Stay on top of all update trainings and technical education.
• Use initiative and judgment in making decisions, keeping with California Dairies, Inc.’s best interests.
• Support and enforce SQF / QA, GMP, Safety policies and procedures, and production needs. “Food Safety and Quality” are the responsibilities of this position.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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