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Overview

The Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) is responsible for ensuring all welding and fabrication work complies with applicable codes, standards, and customer specifications, while operating within the framework of a unionized workforce. The CWI plays a key role in quality assurance, inspection, and compliance, while also promoting a culture of continual improvement, defect reduction, and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct visual inspections of welding and fabrication work.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards.
  • Promote a culture of continual improvement and defect reduction.
  • Support customer satisfaction initiatives.

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How this job compares in Highland Park, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 58% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Michigan — toward the top of a $21–$28/hr middle band drawn from 88 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 95% 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 Highland Park, MI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Highland Park, MI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 141 other active welding openings from 100 employers. Browse welding jobs across Michigan.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Workbox Staffing (5), Technique, Inc Jobs (5), and Aerotek (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Michigan, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Holland at $28/hr and Livonia at $23/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • CWI — the AWS Certified Welding Inspector credential. It is an inspection qualification rather than a welding one, requiring documented experience plus a three-part exam, and it is the usual route off the torch into QC.

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