Welder (Combination)

LAUKOA; Panama City, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid vacation and sick leave

Employer-paid basic life and AD&D

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible work environment

Critical illness coverage

Accident insurance

Identity theft coverage

Pet insurance

Job summary

LAUKOA is seeking a highly experienced Welder to support fabrication, repair, installation, and RDT&E activities at Tyndall Air Force Base. The role requires advanced proficiency across multiple welding processes and the ability to produce high-integrity welds from technical drawings and work orders.

You will plan layouts from blueprints, prepare surfaces, set up fixtures, and visit worksites to evaluate damage and determine materials.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of welding experience; ability to design or contribute to design of new or improved items

Responsibilities

• Plan and lay out welding assignments from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications and work orders for installations and RDT&E items
• Apply multiple welding processes to join common metals and alloys and ensure water- and airtight welds with complete penetration
• Prepare welding surfaces; set up fixtures and devise jigs and fixtures
• Visit worksites to evaluate structural sheet metal damage and adjust layouts based on on-site inspection
• Develop patterns and fabricate/deliver items from concept to installation; maintain accurate work-order documentation

Skills

Welding expertise

Blueprint reading

Shop mathematics

Structural damage evaluation

Hand and power tools

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

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.

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• paid vacation and sick leave
• employer‑paid basic life and AD&D insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• flexible work environment

Additionally, employees can choose from several voluntary benefits including critical illness coverage; accident insurance; identity theft coverage; pet insurance, and more.

• 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.