Welding Technician

Arcosa; Hager City (WI); On-site; USD 54,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures, a subsidiary of Arcosa, Inc., seeks a 2nd shift Plant Welding Technician in Hager City, WI. You will support production welders, troubleshoot techniques, maintain equipment, and drive process improvements while ensuring welding approvals and training.

The role requires a Bachelor degree or equivalent experience with 3+ years in FCAW/SMAW/SAW, and familiarity with welding symbols, procedures, and BOMs. AWS credentials are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years FCAW, SAW, SMAW welding experience requested.
• AWS CWI/CWE desired.
• Able to read welding symbols, procedures, drawings, and BOMs.

Responsibilities

• Provide welding support to production welders, supervisors, and plant personnel.
• Troubleshoot welding technique and equipment issues.
• Maintain welder continuity and equipment calibration; log flux oven activity.
• Evaluate and implement welding process improvements to raise efficiency and quality.
• Conduct welding training on shop floor and classroom settings.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications.

Skills

Welding

Communication

Troubleshooting

Training

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Amp/volt meters

Fillet weld gauges

Undercut gauges

Job description

Meyer Utility Structures is currently looking to hire a 2nd shift Plant Welding Technician for our plant located in Hager City, WI. As a Welding Technician at Meyer Utility Structures, you will perform welding, technical support, welding process troubleshooting, welding process improvement, procedure and code conformances by using welding skills, visual weld inspection experience, and experience using welding procedure specifications.

Meyer Utility Structures is a proud subsidiary of the infrastructure company, Arcosa, Inc. We commit to and pride ourselves on providing reliable structures, superior service, and product solutions. Meyer Utility Structures is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications.

What You'll Do:

• As the welding subject matter expert, provide welding support to production welders, supervisors, and other plant personnel
• Troubleshoot welding technique and routine equipment issues
• Perform routine tasks such as maintain welder continuity, welding equipment calibration, and flux oven logs
• Evaluate, propose, and implement welding process improvements to increase welding efficiency and quality
• Perform welding training on the shop floor and in a classroom setting as required
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications as required
• Participate in internal improvement teams/other duties as required
• Oversee the daily pole school operations
• Maintain welder candidate training, testing and qualification records
• Perform hands on welder candidate training for the FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma/oxyfuel cutting, and air-carbon-arc gouging processes
• Conduct classroom training on welding safety, welding and cutting processes, visual weld acceptance criteria, welding symbols, drawings, etc.
• Perform hands on, pole layout and fit up training
• Provide additional training (OJT) to production welders as required
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications as required
• Participate in welding improvement projects/other duties as required

What You'll need:

• Requires a Bachelor degree or equivalent experience and at least 3 years prior relevant experience.
• AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and/or AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE) desired
• 3 - 5 years FCAW, SAW, and SMAW welding experience
• Proficient using various weld inspection tools such as amp/volt/wire feed/gas flow meters, fillet weld gages, undercut gages, etc.
• Able to read and comprehend welding symbols, welding procedure specifications, work instructions, drawings, bill of materials, etc.
• Working knowledge of AWS D1.1 welding procedure specifications
• Working knowledge of weld filler materials and base materials
• Possess good written and oral communication skills

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