Welding Technician - Night Shift

Arcosa, Inc.; Lancaster (SC); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures, an Arcosa subsidiary, invites applications for a Plant Welding Technician at the Lancaster, SC facility. The role focuses on welding support, process improvements, training, and ensuring code conformance across FCAW, SAW, SMAW, and related processes.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on welding skills, inspection experience, and the ability to read weld symbols and drawings. The job requires shift-based hours and strong teamwork in a manufacturing plant environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years FCAW, SAW, and SMAW welding experience.
• Able to read welding symbols and drawings.
• Knowledge of AWS D1.1 welding procedures.
• Proficient with welding inspection tools.
• Proficient in training and mentoring welders.

Responsibilities

• Provide welding support to production welders and supervisors.
• Troubleshoot welding technique and equipment issues.
• Maintain welder continuity and equipment calibration.
• Evaluate and implement welding process improvements.
• Perform welding training on the shop floor and classroom.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications.
• Oversee daily pole school operations and training records.
• Conduct hands-on training for FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma/oxyfuel cutting, and gouging processes.

Skills

Welding skills

Troubleshooting

Visual inspection

Reading welding symbols

Communication skills

Team collaboration

AWS D1.1 knowledge

Tools

Amp/volt meters

Gas flow meters

Fillet weld gauges

Undercut 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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