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Job Description

Overview

Epiroc is seeking a Welder for their Ooltewah, TN location. The role involves operating cranes, welding products, and maintaining welding tools and equipment to meet quality and production standards, while fostering an innovative and collaborative work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Layout, position, align and fit components into welding fixture as instructed.
  • Set-up gas-shield, mig-weld and weld parts to job specifications.
  • Read, interpret and understand blueprints and welding symbols to complete job assignments.
  • Use hand tools, clamps and grinders to perform job tasks.
  • Complete basic maintenance on welding equipment.
  • Adhere to all safety, health and environmental procedures, policies and practices.
  • Perform any other duties that fall within the employee’s capabilities.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 1+ years’ experience in heavy duty machining/manufacturing environment, preferred but not required.
  • Ability to read tape measure and blueprints.
  • Demonstrated skill level of wire feed (MIG) welding.
  • Ability to read and understand work order routings and instructions.
  • Ability to layout parts using weld fixtures.
  • Excellent critical thinking, communication, problem solving skills and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Tuition reimbursement program

Additional Information

  • Location: Ooltewah, TN, Onsite
  • Employment at Epiroc USA LLC is 'at-will'.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
Life and AD&D insurance
Short and long-term disability insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
Tuition reimbursement program
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How this job compares in Ooltewah, TN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Tennessee currently run a median of $24/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$31/hr across 59 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Ooltewah, TN

Ooltewah, TN is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 92 other active welding openings from 66 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

Epiroc currently has 2 other openings live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Oshkosh Corporation (4), Aerotek (3), and Laborup (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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