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Job Description

Overview

This is a Direct Hire Authority solicitation for a Welder position with the United States Army Engineer District, Huntington Regional Rivers Repair Fleet, located in Nashville, TN, Pittsburgh, PA, and Louisville, KY.

Responsibilities

  • Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders.
  • Operates forklifts on uneven conditions to unload vehicles and move materials in outside storage yards.
  • Uses gas welding torch processes such as oxyacetylene, oxyhydrogen, arc processes, gas tungsten arc, gas carbon arc, and various electric resistance welding processes.
  • Makes a wide range of welds, from simple to precision welding, including welds of dissimilar metals.
  • Works with light, heavy gauge, and hardened metals including mild steel, carbon alloy steel, stainless steel, copper on brass, brass on stainless steel, cast iron, nickel, and bronze.
  • Must have good eye, hand, and foot coordination to watch the clearance of the load while making necessary control changes.

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Additional Information

  • Duty locations include Nashville, TN, Pittsburgh, PA, and Louisville, KY.
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How this job compares in Louisville, KY

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 32% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky — toward the top of a $23–$28/hr middle band drawn from 28 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 93% 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 Louisville, KY

Louisville, KY currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 8 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 40 other active welding openings from 33 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Louisville, or widen the search to Kentucky.

The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Snelling (3), Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (3), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (2). 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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