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Overview

Meyer Utility Structures is searching for a Plant Welding Technician to provide welding and technical support at their Gadsden, AL utility pole manufacturing plant. The role involves troubleshooting welding processes, improving welding procedures, and ensuring code conformance.

Responsibilities

  • Provide welding process troubleshooting.
  • Implement welding process improvements.
  • Ensure procedure and code conformance.
  • Perform visual weld inspections.
  • Utilize welding procedure specifications.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on welding skills.
  • Experience with visual weld inspection.
  • Familiarity with welding procedure specifications.

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How this job compares in Steele, AL

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 34% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama — toward the top of a $21–$32/hr middle band drawn from 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Steele, AL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Steele, AL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 105 other active welding openings from 78 employers. Browse welding jobs across Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are ORION (4), Blue Origin (3), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Alabama, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Mobile at $48/hr, Birmingham at $25/hr, and Huntsville at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Weld Tech - (Off shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.