Welding Tech (Welding Experience required)

The Greenbrier Companies; Marmaduke (AR); On-site; USD 38,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The Greenbrier Companies seeks skilled Weld Techs to train welders, coach on quality welding practices, and adjust welding equipment in our Marmaduke, AR facility. You will read blueprints, follow procedures, and produce quality welds in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities include equipment troubleshooting, maintaining safety standards, and supporting production through hands-on welding and process audits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, blueprints, and schematics.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-the-job welding training for new hires and existing welders.
• Coach welders on quality welding practices to ensure weld integrity and tolerances.
• Adjust welding machines using calibrated instruments to control gas flow, wire speed, and voltage.
• Troubleshoot welding equipment and perform minor repairs to guns and leads.
• Perform production welding as required to support manufacturing needs.
• Assess welding procedures and methods for quality and safety compliance.
• Ensure safety and housekeeping standards are met and maintained.
• Audit welding processes and assist maintenance during equipment downtime.

Skills

Welding

Quality inspection

Blueprint reading

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Welding equipment

Job description

At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters.The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.

Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization.We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.

Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day.

Summary

The Weld Tech provides on-the-job training of welders, coaches quality welding, adjusts welding machines, troubleshoots welding equipment, production welds when needed, and assists in assessing weld procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.

• Provides on-the-job training of welders when they are assigned to a new job, but particularly when they are initially employed.
• Coaches welders on quality welding skills and practices to ensure that welds remain structurally sound, aesthetically pleasing, and within tolerances.
• Adjusts welding machines using calibrated instruments to measure gas flow, wire speed, and voltage.
• Troubleshoots welding equipment, both manual and semi-automatic, and repairs welding guns and leads.
• Performs production welding during those times when production supervision requires such assistance.
• Assesses welding procedures and methodologies in plant.
• Ensures that safety and housekeeping standards are met and maintained.
• Audits welding processes
• Monitors welding equipment set up and assists maintenance during equipment break downs.

Qualifications

The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to accurately demonstrate visual inspections for safety, equipment and processes, parts and welding processes
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions including mechanical drawings, blue prints and schematics
• Ability to work both alone and in a team environment
• Ability to communicate professionally, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to receive and interpret information and communicate it accordingly
• Ability to make quick, effective judgements to resolve problems or navigate challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency test/GED
• 2+ years experience in welding in manufacturing environment

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is in a production environment with exposure to heat, cold, noise, moving machinery and trip hazards where personal protective equipment such as head, eye, hearing, and foot protection, including composite toed safety shoes, are required.

This position may be exposed to welding, machining, forming, metal surface treatment, laser cutting, plasma cutting, and other metal working and assembly processes.

Additional PPE may be required as determined by the environment.

Physical Activities and Requirements

Frequency Key

Not Applicable: Activity is not applicable to this occupation

Occasionally: Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5+ hours/day)

Frequently: Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5- 5.5+ hours/day)

Constantly: Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hours/day)

Working Postures

• Sit: Occasionally
• Stand: Frequently
• Walk: Frequently
• Bend: Occasionally
• Kneel/Squat: Occasionally
• Crawl: Occasionally
• Climb: Occasionally
• Reach Forward: Occasionally
• Reach Upward: Occasionally
• Handling/Fingering: Frequently

Lift / Carry Requirements

• 5-10 lbs: Occasionally
• 10-25 lbs: Occasionally
• 25-50 lbs: Occasionally
• 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
• 75+ lbs: Not Applicable

Push / Pull Requirements

• Up to 10 lbs: Occasionally
• 10-25 lbs: Occasionally
• 25-50 lbs: Occasionally
• 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
• 75+ lbs: Not Applicable

EOE including Vet/Disability

Greenbrier makes reasonable accommodations in the application and hiring process for individuals with known disabilities, unless providing accommodation would result in an undue hardship. Any applicant believing that he or she may need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact Greenbrier Human Resources [e-mail] call us at 503-684-7000.-----------------------------------------------------------------Email communication from The Greenbrier Companies (Greenbrier) will always come from a corporate email address that ends in @gbrx.com or from our applicant tracking system, iCIMS, after you have created a secure account and submitted your application. During the application process, you will create a secure account in our secure applicant tracking site that ends with “-gbrx.icims.com”. In this portal, we will ask you to provide your contact information, past employment history, education history and other job-related information.