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Overview

The Pipe Welder III position involves performing pipe welding using various processes and materials, along with pipe fitting for multiple welders on modular systems. The role requires experience and the ability to lead a small team while ensuring high-quality welding standards.

Responsibilities

  • Consistently weld carbon steel, stainless steel, and other alloys using multiple processes and procedures in various positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits including working at heights and in confined spaces.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examine work pieces for defects and measure them to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Pass internal destructive and non-destructive examinations of various welds.
  • Lead a team of 1-3 team members on a project or job.
  • Set up and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts for welding.
  • Maintain regular attendance in accordance with the attendance policy.
  • Conduct activities in a safe and healthy manner following established safety and company requirements.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or G.E.D. is strongly preferred.
  • Certification or degree in welding from a technical school program is strongly preferred.
  • Two to five years of GTAW pipe welding experience is strongly preferred.
  • Ability to pass Roeslein’s 6G GTAW visual and bend certification is required.
  • Must be able to consistently execute high quality RMD, GMAW, GTAW, and SMAW welds.
  • Advanced ability to read blue prints, ISO’s and other technical documents is required.
  • Meets all Pipe Welder II requirements on a consistent basis.
  • Strong math skills are required.
  • Must be detail oriented.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills are required.
  • High level of energy and motivation.
  • Ability to work flexible hours including frequent and mandatory overtime and weekends is required.
  • Must possess the ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel in a team environment.

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Red Bud, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $26–$38/hr across 249 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 58% 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 Red Bud, IL

Red Bud, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 345 other active welding openings from 223 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

Roeslein & Associates currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (13), Staff on Site (13), and Gerber Collision & Glass (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. 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. 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 pipe welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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