Welding Technician

Arcosa, Inc.; Wisconsin; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures, a proud subsidiary of Arcosa, Inc., is hiring a 2nd shift Plant Welding Technician for our Hager City, WI plant. You will perform welding, technical support, process troubleshooting, and training to ensure welding quality and conformance to procedures.

The role emphasizes hands-on welding, classroom and on-floor training, and maintaining training/qualification records, with a focus on FCAW, SAW, SMAW, and related processes.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Able to read and comprehend welding symbols, welding procedure specifications, work instructions, drawings, bill of materials.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide welding support to production welders, supervisors, and other plant personnel.
• Troubleshoot welding technique and routine equipment issues.
• Maintain welder continuity and equipment calibration.
• 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.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications as required.
• Oversee the daily pole school operations.
• Maintain welder candidate training, testing and qualification records.
• Conduct classroom training on welding safety, welding and cutting processes, visual weld acceptance criteria, welding symbols, drawings, etc.

Skills

Welding

Visual weld inspection

Reading welding symbols

Welding procedure specifications

Training/mentoring

Process troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Amp/volt meters

Wire feed gauges

Gas flow meters

Fillet weld 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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