Welding Technician - Multiple Shifts

Arcosa; Lancaster (SC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures in Lancaster, SC, part of the Arcosa family, seeks a Plant Welding Technician to provide welding support and technical leadership in a pole manufacturing plant. You will troubleshoot welding processes, train staff, and manage qualification records to ensure quality and productivity.

Responsibilities include conducting hands-on training, evaluating procedures, and driving improvements in welding methods across FCAW, SAW, SMAW, and cutting operations, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• 3–5 years FCAW, SAW, SMAW welding experience.
• Ability to read welding symbols and procedures.
• Familiarity with AWS D1.1 and welding materials.

Responsibilities

• Provide welding support to production welders, supervisors, and plant personnel.
• Troubleshoot welding technique and equipment issues.
• Maintain welder continuity, equipment calibration, and logs.
• Propose and implement welding process improvements.
• Perform welding training on the shop floor and in classrooms.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications.
• Oversee daily pole school operations and training records.
• Train candidates in FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma/oxyfuel cutting, and gouging.
• Conduct training on welding safety, symbols, drawings, and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Hands-on welding

Visual inspection

Procedure knowledge

Troubleshooting

Welding symbols

Teamwork

Education

AWS CWI/CWE desired

Tools

Welding gauges

Job description

Meyer Utility Structures (MUS)is searching for aPlant Welding Technician. In this role, you will provide the Lancaster, SC utility pole manufacturing plant with welding and technical support such as welding process troubleshooting, welding process improvement, and procedure and code conformance. The Plant Welding Technician will have strong hands-on welding skills, visual weld inspection experience, and experience using welding procedure specifications.

Meyer Utility Structures, an Arcosa subsidiary, is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications. With over sixty years of innovative engineering and manufacturing expertise, Meyer has helped to author and validate many of today’s transmission industry standards and specifications.

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:

• Must be able to work 9:00pm – 7:00am, Monday – Thursday or 7:00pm- 7:00am, Friday-Sunday.
• 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 specification.
• Working knowledge of weld filler materials and base materials.
• Possess written and oral communication skills.
• Regular and predictable attendance, a great attitude, and an ability to work well with a team towards achieving a common goal

Working Conditions:

• Work environment includes production and non-production areas and plant grounds which operate 3 shifts and frequent weekend shifts
• This position may require coverage beyond the normal hours, shift, and on weekends/holidays
• Both high and low temperatures, loud noises typical of a manufacturing plant

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