Welding Engineer Interview Questions
1. What single project or task would you consider the most significant accomplishment in your career so far?
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1. Improving the frac flow line from making 1 unit that was 1 sold for 1 million dollars in a 2 shift time to making the same product to 4 units per day increasing the production and yet yielding 3 million dollars per day which was approx. 30 million in sales and winnning the NEOA award.
2. I complited two praject effect of welding heat input shieded metal arc welding and weight reduction analysis of air craft wing rib using optistruct.
2. Why should we hire you?
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1. I am passionate hardworking and right fit for the job whicyou are looking for.
2. Hard Worker dedicated to the welding industry I one with vast amounts of welding code knowledge that could used for guaranteeing quality weld specs and could be used for obtaining grants and contracts.
3. Are you efficient with your time?
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1. Yes, manufacturing keeps me on my toes and have to be ready for deadlines as well as line stoppages. So keeping up with my time and using it wisely is very important.
2. Yes im efficient with my time I set my clock 15mins early.
4. Where do you see yourself in five years?
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1. Within the company in a managerial role as a welding engineer with my collegues.
2. Learning all da ropes to your business and climbing up the ladder.
5. What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?
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1. I'm belivable persone on any man but it's become some time dangoures so I take a own desision and improve it.
2. Greatest weakness is mig cus I didnt have shoes molten metal dropping on my foot was hard.
6. What is your greatest strength? How does it help you with welding?
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1. I was a welder for 10+ years in the oil, manufacturing, and aerospace industry. This shows and helps me adapt to any situation and welding process. While giving constructive feedback to improve the processes.
2. Decision making and problem solving. Reduce pressure.
7. How do you prioritize your work when you have multiple projects to complete?
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1. Hot jobs first with the closes deadlines and work my way back. Always keeping in mind an allowing for emergencies.
2. I am involve group descusion.
8. What is the SMAW process?
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1. Shielded metal arc welding. Using arc welding to combine two or more alloys.
2. Shielded Metal Arc welding.
9. What is your overall career objective? Do you see yourself working in engineering ten years from now? If not, what do you think you will be doing?
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1. Yes I am seeing my self working as a successful engineer after 10 years with mastered my beginner level skills and advanced towards modern state.
2. I will a lead welding engineer or project engineer.
10. Tell me about the most challenging engineering project that you have been involved with during past year.
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1. Interpretation of a Blueprint that was on a rev.G and that we had to make our on process as how to machine a part out of inconel, with tight tolerence on a legacy part that was produced from another manufacture.
2. Shielded metal arc welding.
11. What area of engineering do you find most challenging?
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1. I like engineering but my favorite are area is a welding so like challenge on this.
2. To understand what customers required that parameters we have to set is difficult.
12. What engineering skills have you developed or improved upon during the past year?
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1. Using solidworks and being a much better designer in making process cells. Using the lean processes.
2. I have hardwork and desciplane.
13. Recently, tell me a problem you faced where you were unsure the answer. How did you research the problem and find a correct solution?
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1. I was unsure of the type of process that was calling for and I used the internet and the AWS website to verify and validate that the process would work and using upon my own personal experience. I also went ahead and tried out the process before we went ahead and used it to ensure that process would work and yeild the results that we wanted.
2. I searched in internet and friends.
14. Why do you want a career as a Welding Engineer?
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1. =This is the career that I studied in school. This aligns with the 15+ years of experience that I have and want to stay in this field. This is my definition as "Dream Job".
2. I have the experience and qualification.
15. What are you doing to keep current in technology?
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1. I read about new research and development going on in the industry. Have a couple of memberships to NDT and AWS newsletters.
16. What is your philosophy towards work?
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1. Every time I push myself and concentrate in my work.
17. How do you keep track of work so that it gets done on time?
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1. I use a 25% scale when I am working on task that gives me the opportunity to keep track of my time an how each task is going also using hard dates to keep with my self not to go over.
18. What do you do when your time schedule or project plan is upset by unforeseen circumstances?
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1. If it is unforeseen you have to do whatever it takes to try and keep the schedule if that means working late or on the weekends as much as possible to get the schedule back on time or even ahead.
19. How do you get a peer or colleague to accept one of your ideas?
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1. I am suggest valuable things.
2. Explain it as best as possible and listen to his or her ideas and try to collaborate maybe on of their ideas improve on mine of vise versa.
20. How do you decide what gets top priority when scheduling your time?
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1. Deadline dates then I go with hot jobs and work my way to least of importance.
2. I take some time and thinking.
21. Give an example of a time when you made a mistake because you did not listen well to what someone had to say.
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1. This was when I was much younger and I had to repaint a entire vehicle, by not clarifying what the process was to be and assuming that I understood. Now before I do something I always make sure that I understand what is being said and regurgitate the information back to make sure that is what was communicated.
22. What have you done in past situations to contribute toward a teamwork environment?
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1. I was with the team and bought pizza for everyone when I made a goal and made sure if we hit it I was the one picking up the bill. Trying to keep everyone motivated.
23. What made you choose a career as a Welding Engineer?
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1. The challenges involved in it motivated me to join field as welding engineer.
2. This is what I have always wanted to do in life was to be a metal guy and work on cool projects.
24. What was your biggest disappointment as a Welding Engineer?
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1. Finding out that a welding process that I thought would work did, but it was unable to yield the production times and that was a little disappointing, however a much learned lesson learned and will continue to.
2. That is effect human body.
25. What was your greatest accomplishment as a Welding Engineer?
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1. I have been working for a company in Saudi Arabia where I was asked to do maintenance of a wire drawing machine which was already repaired 10 times. Using the correct method and correct filler material helps the customer in gaining service life and helped my company in gaining high profits.
2. Improved the welding process which cut the tack times and cycle times down by 50% that was in time 40 min. Which then increased production and profitability.