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Overview

The Welder II position at BAE Systems involves laying out, fitting up, tacking, and welding various metals using a range of welding processes. This role requires working from engineering drawings and operating welding and cutting equipment, while ensuring high-quality workmanship in a team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lays out, performs fit-up, tacks, and welds parts to produce a weldment or sub-weldment.
  • Joins various metals using a full range of welding processes in different weld positions.
  • Performs rework on product involving repair of defective welds and machined features.
  • Operates manual and semi-automatic welding and plasma cutting equipment.
  • Uses fixtures to layout, locate and position parts and features to be welded and reworked.
  • Inspects work using precision measuring instruments.
  • Completes required shop floor paperwork and documentation.

Requirements

  • A minimum of one year experience with a technical background.
  • Must pass GMAW overhead (4G) weld certification test in aluminum OR steel.
  • Must have ability to use band saw to fabricate simple parts.
  • Must have ability to recognize out-of-specification conditions and defects in weld workmanship.
  • Must have ability to read and interpret drawings with weld symbols and machined features.
  • Must be capable of wearing respiratory protective equipment.

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Anniston, AL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Alabama currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $20–$33/hr across 48 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Anniston, AL

Anniston, AL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 110 other active welding openings from 68 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (15), Austal USA (9), and Savard Group (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 $40/hr and Birmingham at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. 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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

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.

Similar openings near Anniston, AL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder II ($29.80) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.