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The Welding Quality Inspector ensures that welded assemblies, pressure vessels, structural fabrications, and custom manufactured products meet company, customer, and applicable code requirements. This role involves performing inspections and verifying compliance with ASME codes and engineering drawings while collaborating with various departments to uphold safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure welded assemblies meet company and code requirements.
  • Perform in-process and final inspections.
  • Verify compliance with ASME codes and welding procedures.
  • Review engineering drawings for accuracy.
  • Collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality teams.

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How this job compares in Granite City, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 142 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Granite City, IL

Granite City, 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 237 other active welding openings from 174 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (14), Gerber Collision & Glass (9), and Aerotek (7). 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 $33/hr and Peoria at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

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. Welding Quality Inspector figures were last recalculated when this page was built.