Job Description

Overview

The Millwright position at West Fraser involves a wide variety of technical and maintenance duties, including diagnosing and repairing industrial equipment. West Fraser is a leading diversified wood products company that emphasizes internal growth and employee development.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose causes of malfunctions by sight, sound, or actions of machinery and equipment.
  • Start, observe, operate, or activate equipment to detect or verify correction of malfunction.
  • Inspect, adjust, clean, or lubricate equipment as preventive maintenance.
  • Tear down, replace, repair, install, and assemble equipment, parts, components, and accessories.
  • Adjust mechanisms such as feed, speed, power input, or output.
  • Operate various mechanical and electronic test equipment.
  • Repair and maintain industrial equipment including conveying systems and major machine centers.
  • Read and understand drawings and printed instructions.
  • Move machinery and equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
  • Work safely under high pressure situations as a self-starter.
  • Adjust tension on nuts and bolts or position parts using hand tools and measuring instruments.
  • Align machines and equipment using various tools.
  • Assemble and install equipment using hand tools and power tools.
  • Layout mounting holes using measuring instruments and drill holes with a power drill.
  • Replace defective parts of machines or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
  • Level bedplate and establish center line using straightedge, levels, and transit.
  • Dismantle machines using hand tools.
  • Attach moving parts and sub-assembly to basic assembly unit using hand and power tools.
  • Remain current in technical changes or equipment designs by attending classes.
  • Work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, and overtime as scheduled.
  • Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps.
  • Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors.
  • Experience reading blueprints.
  • Two years or more of experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing heavy equipment.
  • Experience with fabrication, cutting with a torch, and welding with an arc welder.
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations.
  • Safety is one of West Fraser’s core values.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Cofield, NC

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina — toward the top of a $24–$32/hr middle band drawn from 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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 Cofield, NC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Cofield, NC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 157 other active welding openings from 82 employers. Browse welding jobs across North Carolina.

West Fraser currently has 48 other openings live in North Carolina, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are West Fraser (48), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (4), and Carrier Global (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 North Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Charlotte at $36/hr and Seaboard at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Cofield, NC

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