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Job Description

Overview

Tate is an independent brand within Kingspan Group, recognized for over 60 years as a leader in data center infrastructure solutions and commercial office raised access floors. The Weld Technician role involves performing measurements, cutting, and assembly of metal products, requiring collaboration with various departments to ensure quality and safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Selects, measures, cuts, and joins appropriate metals to specifications.
  • Prepares metals and work surfaces to ensure safe and effective assemblage.
  • Interprets specifications and blueprints accurately.
  • Regularly cleans and inspects welding equipment and tools.
  • Determines correct gas ratios.
  • Tests the strength of joins during and after project completion.
  • Diagnoses issues and troubleshoots as required.
  • Detects and reports defective materials or questionable conditions to Supervisor or Manager.
  • Maintains good housekeeping and follows established safety procedures.
  • Performs any other duties as assigned or directed by Supervisor as production needs require.
  • Follows all policies, procedures, and work instructions including Employee Handbook, SOPs, MOPs, JSAs, and Safety Manual.
  • Maintains awareness of individual contribution to and impact of the quality, safety, environmental, and product compliance policies and activities.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED; or equivalent experience.
  • AWS Certification a plus.
  • 2+ years’ experience in structural welding.
  • Must be detail oriented, efficient, and able to work under minimal supervision and guidance.
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions when furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Must be computer literate.
  • Able to work in a team environment and interface with a diverse workforce.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. unassisted.
  • Ability to use various tools and measuring instruments such as calipers, micrometers, tape measure, dial indicator, and feeler gauges.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Pocahontas, AR
  • 1st Shift
  • Full-time, Non - Exempt

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Pocahontas, AR

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $22/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas — toward the top of a $21–$32/hr middle band drawn from 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 65% 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 Pocahontas, AR

Pocahontas, AR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 47 other active welding openings from 40 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.

Tate Access Floors Inc currently has 1 other opening live in Arkansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are PDS Tech Commercial (2), XPO (2), and Veterans Health Administration (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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. Weld Technician 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.