Job Description

Overview

The Pipe Welder Journeyman position involves planning, laying out, welding, installing, testing, and repairing various types of pipes and tubular products according to industry standards and specifications. The role requires skilled experience and the ability to work independently with precision.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, diagram and lay-out for pipe welder’s work.
  • Coordinate with field labor crew for efficient installations.
  • Position the weld set up, fit the piping and perform welds involving a high degree of precision independently.
  • Lay-out and assemble pipes accurately according to production standards, quality requirements, safety requirements, code, design, and specifications.
  • Make welding repairs and substandard welds.
  • Assist with coordination of any Pre-Fabrication layout or installation.
  • Assist with rigging of material.
  • Operate air arc gouger, grinder, stress relieving machine, and other industry machines, tools and equipment.
  • Estimate sizes, distances, and quantities; or determine time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Inspect subordinate's work for compliance with the contract plans and specifications, point out deficiencies and explain and take any corrective action needed.

Requirements

  • May require a high school diploma or its equivalent with previous years of experience in the field or in a related area.
  • Must possess strong working knowledge skills and abilities for position.
  • Ability to understand, follow and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management/supervision.
  • Proficient in the safe and efficient use of electrical, hand tools, power tools and layout tools as well as measurement tools.
  • Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy and dusty environment.
  • Must have all required tools.
  • U.S. Driver's License may be required.
  • Ability to pass pre-access drug, alcohol and fit-for-duty testing.

Additional Information

  • The person in this position needs to constantly move about a construction/industrial site.
  • Constantly works in a construction environment and will be exposed to changing outdoor weather conditions.
  • Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime and holidays as required.
  • May be required to use ladders/mechanical platforms/manlifts/scaffold to access required equipment/work areas (may exceed 200 feet).
  • Move and work in and around confined and cluttered places, and uneven surfaces.
  • May be required/able to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across construction/industrial site.

How this job compares in Greenville, MS

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, pipe welder jobs across Mississippi currently run a median of $39/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $31–$39/hr across 10 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 Greenville, MS

Greenville, MS currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Mississippi as a whole we're tracking 70 other active welding openings from 41 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Greenville, or widen the search to Mississippi.

TIC - The Industrial Company currently has 13 other openings live in Mississippi, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Mississippi at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TIC - The Industrial Company (13), Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Division of HII (6), and HII (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Greenville, MS

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