FITTER at Nucor Corporation in Portland, Tennessee

Job Description:

Job Details



Division: Kirby Building Systems LLC



Location: Portland, TN, United States


Other Available Locations: N/A




About Us:


Nucor Buildings Group (NBG), a proud Nucor product group, is one of North America's largest and most experienced manufacturers of metal building systems. With multiple locations throughout the United States, NBG is proud to design world-class building solutions tailored to meet the needs of any market including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and institutional. Our brands include American Buildings, CBC Steel Buildings, Kirby Building Systems, and Nucor Building Systems.


NBG offers work/life balance and a variety of benefits and performance incentives. We take pride in connecting teammates to meaningful work and focus heavily on both personal and professional development. Whether your background is in engineering and design, information technology and software development, marketing, or sales, with Nucor Buildings Group you can go as far as your drive and ambition will take you.



Why Nucor?



When you join Nucor, America's largest steel manufacturer and recycler, you'll help create a variety of steel products that become so much more, for so many people. And you won't do it alone. Our supportive culture builds each other up, values family, relationships, and puts safety above anything else. With the freedom to take your ideas to the next level, there's no end to what you can achieve. This is your chance to build a lifelong career, give back to your community, make the world a better place - and BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.



Job Security - Benefits - Bonus Programs



With performance-based compensation, profit sharing, and a no-layoff practice, we take care of our teammates who design, engineer, fabricate, and support the products that define our company.




Basic Job Functions:

• Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.
• Perform various fit up and tacking operations on a variety of structural assemblies.
• Interpret weld symbols and follow weld procedures.
• Add stiffeners, brackets, face plates, etc. using prints for location prior to finish welding.
• Must use clamps, jigs, tape, square, arc air gouger, cutting torch and plasma as required using judgment to prevent warping and misalignment of component parts.
• Must be trained to operate jib crane.
• Maintain necessary records. Detect and report improper operation, faulty equipment, defective materials and unusual conditions to proper supervision.
• Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition.
• Follow prescribed safety rules and regulations and maintain quality standards.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Effectively communicating with upstream and downstream to address safety, quality, and efficiency issues/concerns.

• Experience with reading drawings, prints, and weld standards.
• Experience using tools such as squares, clamps, and tape measures and/or other measuring tools.
• Ability to understand and convert decimal to fractions.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US (Nucor will not sponsor the need for a visa now or in the future)

• At least 1 year prior experience in fabrication.
• Previous crane certification.
• Previous experience in material handling.