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Job Description

Overview

The Millwright position at West Fraser involves a wide range of technical duties including diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining industrial equipment. The company is a leading manufacturer in the wood products industry, emphasizing growth and internal promotions.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose causes of malfunctions by sight, sound, or actions of machinery and equipment.
  • Start, observe, operate, or otherwise 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.
  • Align machines and equipment using various tools.
  • Assemble and install equipment using hand tools and power tools.
  • Replace defective parts of machines or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
  • Dismantle machines using hand tools.
  • Remain current in technical changes or equipment designs by attending classes as needed.
  • Work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, and overtime as scheduled or required.
  • 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 (2) 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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Skippers, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia — toward the top of a $27–$34/hr middle band drawn from 124 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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 Skippers, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Skippers, VA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 181 other active welding openings from 108 employers. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.

West Fraser currently has 13 other openings live in Virginia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are West Fraser (13), Colonna's Shipyard (8), and HII (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Virginia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Staunton at $34/hr, Norfolk at $32/hr, and Richmond at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Millwright figures were last recalculated when this page was built.