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Job Description

Overview

The Pipe Welder position involves laying out, aligning, and welding various components to assemble structural forms according to blueprints and metallurgy. The role requires a minimum of 4 years of industrial construction or maintenance experience and NCCER certification.

Responsibilities

  • Install, modify, and make repairs to pipe, boilers, towers, exchangers, furnaces, and drums.
  • Set up equipment and weld either pipe, plate, or structural steel using arc, gas-shielded arc, or gas welding equipment.
  • Work from blueprints, sketches, and specifications.
  • Produce quality work with reasonable efficiency.
  • Perform simple piping installations and repairs.
  • Assist other mechanics.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4 years industrial construction/maintenance industry experience.
  • NCCER Certified Plus.
  • Ability to perform physical tasks such as climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, and repetitive motions.
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How this job compares in Lowndesboro, AL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, pipe welder jobs across Alabama currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$36/hr across 9 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 Lowndesboro, AL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lowndesboro, AL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 105 other active welding openings from 78 employers. Browse welding jobs across Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are ORION (4), Blue Origin (3), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (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 $48/hr, Birmingham at $25/hr, and Huntsville at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Lowndesboro, AL

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