Job Description

Overview

Wood is currently sourcing for a Rig Welder for a project in Keenesburg, CO. The company is a global leader in consulting, engineering, and operations for the energy and materials sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Accurately interpret and apply information from work orders, job orders, specifications, ISO's, blueprints or other drawings.
  • Identify, recognize and demonstrate safe usage of hand tools and power tools appropriate for the job.
  • Recognize various materials used in the craft and demonstrate a working knowledge of appropriate material handling techniques.
  • Select and safely use appropriate equipment which may include manlifts, fork lifts, and company trucks.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and skills in safe rigging practices.
  • Identify, explain and perform crane signals.
  • Demonstrate ability to weld together parts using any of the welding processes on various metals.
  • Demonstrate ability to use alignment devices for fabrication.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and ability to qualify and pass all welding performance tests.
  • Demonstrate ability to produce welds that are 100% X-ray quality.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and skills in use of oxy-acetylene flame cutting equipment.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of regulations governing quality control codes.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.

Requirements

  • Must own welding machine.
  • Minimum 2 years journeyman experience welding various types of materials.
  • 1-2 years of experience as helper in the welding field.

Additional Information

  • U.S. Only: Authorization to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood is required.

How this job compares in Keenesburg, CO

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 44% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Colorado — toward the top of a $24–$32/hr middle band drawn from 72 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Keenesburg, CO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Keenesburg, CO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 59 employers. Browse welding jobs across Colorado.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (9), Honeywell Technologies (4), 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 Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arvada at $30/hr, Denver at $28/hr, and Colorado Springs at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Keenesburg, CO

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