Welder (Combination)

LAUKOA; Panama City (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) with match

Paid vacation

Job summary

LAUKOA seeks an experienced welder to support fabrication, repair, installation, and RDT&E at Tyndall Air Force Base. The role requires advanced proficiency across welding processes, precise layout, and on-site evaluation of structural damage. You will produce high-integrity welds on various metals and maintain detailed work orders.

Minimum 10 years of welding experience, blueprints reading skills, and clearance requirements (NACI; DoD CAC) apply. U.S. person only.

Qualifications

• 10 years' experience as a welder.
• Knowledge of multiple metals and welding methods requiring full penetration and fusion.
• Ability to read blueprints and technical specifications; complex shop math.
• NACI; DoD CAC clearance.
• Valid state driver’s license; U.S. person only.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lay out welding from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specs and work orders.
• Apply oxyacetylene, arc, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW and other processes to join metals and alloys.
• Prepare surfaces; set up fixtures and jigs; maintain quality welds.
• Visit worksites to assess damage, adjust layouts, compute curves and angles.
• Develop patterns and fabricate items; maintain documentation; backup for machining.

Skills

Welder experience

Blueprint reading

Welding processes

Precision measurement

Machining backup

Job description

LAUKOA brings together a diverse portfolio of companies delivering mission-critical services to the Department of Defense, federal agencies, and commercial organizations. From environmental stewardship and infrastructure support to technology, operations, maintenance, and construction services, we help clients accomplish their goals through expertise, innovation, and trusted partnerships. Rooted in Native Hawaiian values, we are committed to delivering results that strengthen organizations, communities, and future generations.

Whether you’re building critical infrastructure in Greenland, supporting federal health programs in Florida, or protecting ecosystems in the Pacific, LAUKOA brings together people who care about what they do.

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LAUKOA is seeking a highly experienced Welder to support fabrication, repair, installation, and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) activities at Tyndall Air Force Base. The Welder plans and executes complex welding and metal-fabrication assignments from technical drawings, specifications, and work orders; produces high-integrity welds on a wide range of metals and alloys; and fabricates, repairs, and installs structures, components, equipment, and test articles. This hands-on role requires advanced proficiency across multiple welding processes, precision layout and shop mathematics, use of specialized welding and sheet-metal equipment, and on-site evaluation of structural damage and repair requirements. The Welder will also maintain accurate work-order documentation and provide qualified backup support to machining and sheet-metal fabrication operations as needed

Job Description / Summary of Duties:

• Plan and lay out welding assignments from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders for installation facilities and R&D items
• Apply oxyacetylene, electrode arc, submerged arc, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, metal spray arc, spot, and stud welding to join common metals and alloys, including dissimilar metals; weld structures, plates, sheet metal, castings, forgings, pipes, boilers, shafts, turbines, valves, caissons, and tanks; produce water- and air-tight welds with complete penetration and fusion, including in hard-to-reach positions
• Prepare welding surfaces; set up clamp fixtures and devise special jigs and fixtures
• Visiting worksites to analyze, evaluate, and classify structural sheet metal damage; adjust job layout based on on-site inspection; compute irregular curves, angles, and pitch with complicated shop mathematics; determine materials, tools, and equipment
• Develop patterns and cut, form, join, assemble, and install items with combined straight/curved edges and irregular angles; apply radial-line and parallel-line development; fabricate dovetailed, set-in-bottom, burred-bottom, wire, and lock seams; fabricate templates
• Operate and maintain slip roll forming machines, box and pan brakes, rotary machines, crimping/burring/turning/beading machines, hydraulic press brake, shears, form roller, hand brakes, drill press, saws, punches, plate roll, and soldering/welding equipment; update the work order system to completion
• Provide backup capability in the Machinist and Sheet Metal Fabricator areas

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years' experience as a welder who has designed or participated in the design of new or improved items
• Knowledge of aluminum, stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material, and alloys; of a wide range of welding principles and difficult techniques requiring complete penetration and fusion; and of welding standards and metal reactions to welding processes
• Knowledge of related metal trades: brazing, soldering, flame- and arc-cutting, surface hardening, annealing, and metal spraying
• Skill in reading blueprints, diagrams, sketches, and technical specifications; complicated shop mathematics; structural damage evaluation
• Skill with complicated hand and power tools and precision measuring instruments
• NACI; DoD CAC;
• Valid state driver's license;
• U.S. person only

*This Position is Contingent Upon Award.

LAUKOA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/VEVRAA federal contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

LAUKOA offers a best-in-class benefits program including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) program with employer match; paid vacation and sick leave; employer-paid basic life and AD&D insurance; an Employee Assistance Program; and a flexible work environment. Additionally, employees can choose from several voluntary benefits including critical illness coverage; accident insurance; identity theft coverage; pet insurance, and more.

LAUKOA gives preference to internal candidates. If no internal candidate meets our qualifications, external candidates will be given consideration.