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Overview

DIS-TRAN Steel is seeking an experienced Fitter II to join their team in Pineville. The Fitter II will be responsible for fitting steel layouts according to specifications, ensuring quality production with minimal supervision while also having the ability to train Fitter I individuals.

Responsibilities

  • Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
  • Positions, aligns, and welds parts to form complete structures following blueprints and layout specifications.
  • Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Examines steel or workpieces to ensure that specifications are met.
  • Moves parts safely into position manually or with hoists or cranes.
  • Produces complete joint penetration welds that meet visual and ultrasonic inspection.
  • Reads and understands welding symbols.
  • Prepares all joints as required by AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
  • Welds components in flat position.
  • Operates manual welding equipment to fuse metal parts using the gas metal arc process.
  • Cleans and repairs welds with grinders, arc gougers, and other equipment.
  • Examines work pieces for defects and measures with weld gauges.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
  • Ability to interpret blueprints and read a tape measure required.
  • Welding certification or prior welding experience with successful passing of DIS-TRAN Steel’s Welder II test is required.
  • Capable of producing complete joint penetration welds that meet all visual and ultrasonic inspection per AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
  • Ability to produce high quality welds in all applications with various material types.
  • Ability to use standard set of weld gauges is required.
  • Ability to properly set, maintain, and troubleshoot welding equipment is required.
  • GMAW experience required.
  • Certifications or prior experience using moving machinery, such as cranes, preferred.

Additional Information

  • Location: Pineville
  • Part of the CREST INDUSTRIES family of companies.
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How this job compares in Pineville, LA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Louisiana currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$36/hr across 33 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Pineville, LA

Pineville, LA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 102 other active welding openings from 65 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Pineville, or widen the search to Louisiana.

Crest Industries currently has 2 other openings 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 (8), Savard Group (7), and PALA Interstate (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 Louisiana, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Walker at $37/hr and New Orleans at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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