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Job Description

Overview

CGB Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Shipyard Welder to join their team, contributing to meaningful work in the grain and transportation industries. The role involves designing, fabricating, repairing, and maintaining metal structures on rigs, ships, and barges, with a focus on Shielded Metal Arc Welding.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, measure, adjust and test completed metal work pieces to ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Read blueprints, work orders or production schedules to determine product or job instructions or specifications.
  • Assemble, align and clamp work pieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components.
  • Set up, operate, and maintain welding machines/equipment that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
  • Heat and grind metal parts and components using hand tools, torch, or other welding equipment.
  • Fabricate and fit substrates as required.
  • Monitor the welding, burning and fitting process to ensure parts are not overheated or damaged.
  • Maintain a safe and clean work environment by complying with all safety procedures, rules and regulations.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Required: High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Intermediate to advanced level of understanding of mechanical maintenance.
  • General knowledge of many types of tools.
  • Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
  • Basic mathematical skills, i.e., add, subtract, multiply and divide.
  • Ability to read and understand measurements.
  • Ability to follow direction and interpret oral and written instructions.
  • Ability to complete documentation requirements.
  • Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
  • Ability to use tools appropriate for assigned task.
  • Ability to focus on exceptional customer service.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Employees located in Louisiana must have reliable transportation to get to and from work sites.
  • Work site location will depend on business needs and will typically be in various parishes.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Saint Louis, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Saint Louis, MO, whose middle half runs $23–$36/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Saint Louis, MO

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Saint Louis, MO right now, from 10 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 77 other active welding openings from 52 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Saint Louis, or widen the search to Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (6), Webco Manufacturing (6), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Louis at $29/hr and Kansas City at $24/hr. Saint Louis is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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