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Overview

The ASR Group® is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, producing a wide range of sweetener products. The Iron Worker (Welder/Fabricator) is responsible for assembling, installing, maintaining, and repairing complex layouts using various equipment and welding materials.

Responsibilities

  • Lays out major and difficult installations from blueprints, sketches, and specifications.
  • Uses electric or gas welding equipment to work with any type of steel, iron, or alloys used in the refinery.
  • Instructs lower rated iron workers in the proper performance of their duties as required.
  • Erects and removes hand rails, cat walks, building supports, tank supports, and drives steel foundations using various tools.
  • Performs fabrication, erection, and removal of ducts and gutter pipes; cuts, bends, and brazes copper pipe; drives and bucks rivets.
  • Carries out duties as ordered by Supervisors.

Requirements

  • 3-4 years experience in welding and fabrication.
  • High school education or equivalent.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, and schematic drawings.
  • Advanced knowledge of the principles of welding and fabrication of iron and steel.
  • Must be able to use iron worker’s tools and shop equipment.
  • Flexibility to work various shifts, including weekends and holidays, as needed.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: Chalmette, Louisiana.
  • Paid sick time and vacation after 90 day probationary period.

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Arabi, LA

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 35% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Louisiana — toward the top of a $24–$35/hr middle band drawn from 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% 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 Arabi, LA

Arabi, LA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 105 other active welding openings from 73 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Louisiana.

American Sugar Refining, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Louisiana, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Louisiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Worley (9), Savard Group (8), and Bollinger Shipyards (4). 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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