Welding Engineer

Welding Engineer

HIROTEC Manufacturing America, located in Fayetteville, Tennessee, is part of the HIROTEC Group, headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan. HIROTEC Group delivers body-in-white closures, exhaust systems, flexible closure tooling, and stamping dies to automotive customers around the world. With a US headquarters in Auburn Hills, MI, HIROTEC Group operates 33 facilities in eight countries.

Currently, we are seeking a Welding Engineer to become a part of the HIROTEC team.

*Full time Employment in a Climate-Controlled Manufacturing Environment with Benefits, 401K with Company Match, Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, and Company-Paid Uniforms*

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs, analyzes, and specifies welds for manufacturability, functionality, and standards compliance
• Develops, qualifies, maintains and audits robotic welding and spot-welding procedures in accordance with AWS standards and other applicable specifications
• Selects appropriate robotic welding processes, materials, and filler metals based on project and customer requirements
• Oversees robotic welding and spot-welding operations, ensuring adherence to engineering standards, safety protocols, and equipment limitations
• Troubleshoots robotic welding and spot-welding problems, identify root causes specific to automated MIG/TIG, and resistance welding principles, and recommend corrective actions
• Conducts inspections of welds and ensures they meet quality standards of various customers
• Analyzes welding defects and repeat issues to reduce and eliminate wasted time and materials
• Maintains welding procedure specifications and qualification records for robotic welding, spot welding, and any applicable manual welding processes
• Stays up to date on the latest robotic welding, spot welding technologies, best practices, and programming techniques
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of robotic welding, spot welding, resistance welding and integration with other manufacturing systems
• Provides technical support to manufacturing and engineering teams on both traditional, robotic, and spot-welding applications
• Other duties and projects may be assigned based on the operational objectives of the company

Ideal candidate should have a bachelor's degree in Welding Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, and 3to 5 years of experience in a weld engineering role, with demonstrated knowledge of robotic welding systems, spot welding principles, and their applications; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

If you are hardworking, dependable, and enjoy a group environment,

come join the HIROTEC Manufacturing America team.

An excellent work environment and benefits await you!