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Job Description

Overview

The Millwright position involves a diverse range of technical duties focused on the maintenance and repair of industrial equipment. West Fraser, a leading wood products company, offers a stable work environment with opportunities for career development and internal promotions.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose causes of malfunctions using technical electronic diagnostics and precision instruments.
  • Start and operate equipment to verify correction of malfunctions.
  • Inspect, adjust, clean, or lubricate equipment as preventive maintenance.
  • Tear down, replace, repair, install, and assemble equipment and components.
  • Adjust mechanisms such as feed, speed, and 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 hand tools and measuring instruments.
  • Assemble and install equipment using hand and power tools.
  • Layout mounting holes and drill holes with power drills.
  • Replace defective parts and adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
  • Level bedplate and establish center line using straightedge and levels.
  • Dismantle machines using hand tools.
  • Attach moving parts and sub-assemblies to basic assembly units.
  • Remain current in technical changes or equipment designs by attending classes.
  • Work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, and overtime as required.
  • Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Two years or more of experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing heavy equipment.
  • Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps.
  • Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors.
  • Experience reading blueprints.
  • 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 Red Oak, NC

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina, whose middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 53% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Red Oak, NC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Red Oak, 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.

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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.