Welding Technician - Night Shift

Arcosa Inc.; Lancaster (SC); On-site; USD 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures, an Arcosa subsidiary, seeks a Plant Welding Technician for our Lancaster, SC facility. You will deliver hands-on welding, process troubleshooting, and technical support to production welders while driving improvements and ensuring procedure conformance.

The role emphasizes training on FCAW, SAW, SMAW and related welding processes, with emphasis on safety and quality in a multishift plant environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years FCAW, SAW, SMAW welding experience.
• Able to read and comprehend welding symbols, procedures and drawings.
• Knowledge of AWS D1.1 and welding materials.
• Welding procedure specification qualification/training capability.
• Willingness to train others and participate in improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide welding support to production welders and supervisors.
• Troubleshoot welding technique and equipment issues.
• Maintain welder continuity and equipment calibration records.
• Lead welding process improvements to boost efficiency and quality.
• Train shop floor and classroom welding activities.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications.
• Oversee daily pole school operations and welder training.
• Maintain training, testing and qualification records.

Skills

Welding expertise

Welding inspection

Technical training

Process improvement

Team collaboration

Education

Welding-related associate degree

Tools

Welding inspection tools

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.
• Welding related associate degree desired.
• 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