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  "title": "Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers",
  "summary": "Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.",
  "aliases": [
    "Brazer",
    "Solderer",
    "Welder",
    "Wirer",
    "Assembly Line Brazer",
    "Fabrication Welder",
    "MIG Welder (Metal Inert Gas Welder)",
    "Maintenance Welder",
    "TIG Welder (Tungsten Inert Gas Welder)",
    "Welder Fitter",
    "Acetylene Burner",
    "Acetylene Cutter"
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      "text": "Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.",
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      "text": "Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.",
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      "text": "Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.",
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    {
      "text": "Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.",
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      "text": "Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.",
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      "text": "Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.",
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      "text": "Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.",
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      "text": "Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.",
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      "text": "Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.",
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      "text": "Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.",
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      "text": "Align and clamp workpieces together, using rules, squares, or hand tools, or position items in fixtures, jigs, or vises.",
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      "text": "Melt and apply solder to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products, using soldering equipment.",
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      "name": "Maintain safety.",
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      "name": "Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.",
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      "name": "Select production equipment according to product specifications.",
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      "name": "Ignite fuel to activate heating equipment.",
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    {
      "name": "Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.",
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      "name": "Determine metal or plastic production methods.",
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      "name": "Monitor equipment operation to ensure that products are not flawed.",
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      "name": "Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.",
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      "name": "Trim excess material from workpieces.",
      "iwa": "4.A.3.a.2.l"
    },
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      "name": "Operate grinding equipment.",
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    {
      "name": "Clean workpieces or finished products.",
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    {
      "name": "Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production.",
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      "name": "Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.",
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      "name": "Design templates or patterns.",
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      "name": "Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.",
      "iwa": "4.A.3.a.2.l"
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      "name": "Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.",
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      "name": "Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.",
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