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Overview

Sunward Steel Buildings is a family-owned American manufacturer with over 50 years of experience in selling, engineering, and manufacturing custom metal buildings. The Welder role involves assembling metal components with precision and efficiency while adhering to safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Reviewing and planning work order procedures and gathering necessary tools and materials.
  • Repairing and fabricating various items and equipment using cutting, burning, and welding techniques.
  • Monitoring the welding, burning, and fitting process to prevent overheating or damage.
  • Preparing, assembling, and tack welding parts and surfaces.
  • Adhering to all safety rules, best practices, and company standards.
  • Maintaining, organizing, and cleaning equipment and work areas.
  • Reporting faulty equipment or defective materials to supervisors.
  • Performing other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Understanding of basic math including fractions.
  • Ability to read shop drawings.
  • Proficiency with tape measures.
  • Experience in welding metal components together.
  • Knowledge of installing and using consumables.
  • Ability to set up and operate welding units.
  • Tack welding experience (preferred).
  • Finish welding experience (preferred).
  • Welding certifications (preferred).

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How this job compares in Walterboro, SC

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 36% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Walterboro, SC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Walterboro, SC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 102 other active welding openings from 77 employers. Browse welding jobs across South Carolina.

The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Keel (3), and ORION (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 South Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Aiken at $32/hr and Anderson at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.