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Overview

The Welder II position involves loading and unloading parts, inspecting for quality, troubleshooting issues, and maintaining a safe work environment. BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company focused on delivering a range of products and services for national security.

Responsibilities

  • Load and unload parts onto weld tables and fixtures using hand tools, ratchets, or air tools.
  • Inspect parts against quality specifications to ensure accuracy and quality.
  • Identify and troubleshoot problems, recommending or taking corrective action as needed.
  • Safely operate material handling equipment to move parts, materials, containers, and fixtures.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area, adhering to company safety protocols.
  • Provide training and guidance to colleagues as needed.
  • Perform other duties as required to support team objectives.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent, with a minimum of 1 year of welding experience; or trade school graduate with a welding certificate.
  • Ability to successfully pass weld qualification in accordance with appropriate weld specifications.
  • Ability to apply shop math, read and interpret blueprints, and calculate dimensions.
  • Ability to understand work orders, machine controls and settings, fixtures and tool requirements.
  • Ability to hold and maneuver a weld torch, and operate foot and hand controls.
  • Ability to operate a scissors lift with 27-inch step-up and 15-foot working heights.
  • Ability to lift 30 pounds and apply 30 pounds of torque to ratchets.
  • Ability to operate hoist, pallet jacks, or forklift.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Aiken, SC

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina, whose middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 57% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Aiken, SC

Aiken, SC currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 102 other active welding openings from 78 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Aiken, or widen the search to South Carolina.

BAE Systems, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in South Carolina, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Keel (3), and ORION (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Aiken, SC

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.