Job Description

Overview

The Pressure Boundary Welder position involves assisting in the fabrication of coil products while ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards. The role requires maintaining production schedules, performing maintenance, and mentoring less experienced welders.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain production schedule
  • Maintain a safe and clean work area
  • Perform daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance PM’s that are the operator’s responsibility
  • Complete all production and quality documentation
  • Maintain leak rate within skill level
  • Maintain acceptable weld appearance
  • Maintain acceptable production rate within the skill level
  • Make quality checks to ensure materials, parts and workmanship are compliant with engineering requirements and production expectations
  • Demonstrate superior service skills and professionalism in day-to-day dealings with coworkers
  • Continually demonstrate good attendance practices, minimizing unplanned absences
  • Ensure adherence to company policies and work rules
  • Strive to continually improve quality, safety, and productivity within your department
  • Understand and follow all relevant standards and procedures
  • Complete all documents pertaining to the process
  • Determine good weld quality during the welding process and make corrections as needed
  • Assist in other areas of the shop when needed
  • Maintain the required welder certification within the skill level
  • Mentor less experienced welders

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED equivalent
  • Basic shop math skills
  • Ability to read a tape measure to within 1/16”
  • General understanding of common hand tools is preferred
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to read and understand all engineering prints related to the process
  • Must have successfully performed all requirements of an Evaporator Welder Level 2
  • Must have completed all requirements of the Level 3 evaporator weld training including proficiency on a minimum of 3 coils by achieving a leak rate of ≤ 4% and efficiency ≥ 60%
  • Must achieve a leak rate of ≤ 4% and efficiency ≥ 80% within 6 months
  • Must achieve a leak rate of ≤ 3% and efficiency ≥ 95% within 12 months

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Manufacturing environment
  • Continuous standing, squatting, bending, pulling, and lifting throughout the workday
  • Lifting of 50 lbs or less
  • Wear PPE when required
  • Shift work, days or evenings, Monday through Friday, and some Saturdays and Sundays

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Greenup, IL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$35/hr across 143 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 Greenup, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Greenup, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 174 employers. 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.

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