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Job Description

Overview

Join Johnson Controls as a skilled Tig welder with pipe welding experience in Waynesboro, where you will help build innovative, sustainable HVAC systems in a supportive environment that values craftsmanship and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Perform Tig welding on carbon, galvanized, and stainless steel.
  • Weld, layout, cut, and fit parts to meet drawing tolerances.
  • Use plasma and oxygen cutting tools.
  • Regulate current, voltage, and select proper tips, rods, and sizes for each job.
  • Assemble complex standard products, including tubing layout and pipe bending.
  • Clean equipment using hand or power tools after welding.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Proven TIG welding experience.
  • Proven pipe welding experience.
  • Completion of an accredited welding training program (preferred).

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Waynesboro, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 35% above the $23/hr median for TIG welder jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $23–$25/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% 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 Waynesboro, PA

Waynesboro, PA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 230 other active welding openings from 150 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

Johnson Controls currently has 1 other opening live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (15), Aerotek (11), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr, York at $27/hr, and Lancaster at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

See all TIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Tig Welder (2nd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.