Job Description

Overview

Renfrow Industrial is hiring an Industrial Mechanical Superintendent to lead multi-trade mechanical crews on industrial and heavy commercial projects. This role involves hands-on support in various mechanical tasks while coordinating equipment tie-ins and trade interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Mechanical Leads, Mechanics, Millwrights, Riggers, Ironworkers, Structural Welders, Fabricators, Helpers, and support trades.
  • Work hands-on with tools when needed to support production, safety, quality, schedule, and critical field work.
  • Oversee equipment setting, structural steel interfaces, steel modifications, structural welding support, rigging, millwright alignment, fabrication support, and mechanical installation.
  • Coordinate lift planning, crane support, equipment placement, base plates, equipment supports, platforms, machine bases, conveyors, pumps, compressors, gearboxes, and rotating equipment.
  • Maintain enough piping knowledge to coordinate process/utility piping interfaces, equipment tie-ins, supports, access, and sequencing with Pipe Fitters and Piping Superintendents.
  • Track manpower, material needs, production, quality issues, schedule risks, field constraints, and crew performance.
  • Support Renfrow Industrial rigging, certified welding, steel erection and modification, fabrication, skid manufacturing, plant relocation, maintenance, outages, shutdowns, capital projects, facility expansions, new construction, code repair and installs, and emergency service work.

Requirements

  • 7+ years industrial mechanical construction experience.
  • Prior Mechanic, Millwright, Rigger, Ironworker, Structural Welder, Fabricator, or Mechanical Lead experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of ironwork, rigging, structural welding, millwright alignment, fabrication, equipment setting, and multi-trade field coordination.
  • Working knowledge of process piping, utility piping, welding coordination, and equipment tie-in requirements preferred.
  • Strong safety leadership, communication, planning, customer service, and crew coordination skills.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Normal working hours are Monday through Thursday under normal project conditions.
  • Typical 4x10 work schedule.
  • Overtime, Fridays, weekends, nights, outages, shutdowns, and travel may be required based on client and project needs.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Capitol View, SC

Pay in context

At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina — toward the top of a $24–$36/hr middle band drawn from 57 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 84% 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 Capitol View, SC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Capitol View, SC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 105 other active welding openings from 81 employers. Browse welding jobs across South Carolina.

OpSource Staffing currently has 1 other opening live in South Carolina, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Vertiv (4), and GE Vernova (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within South Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Duncan at $36/hr, Aiken at $29/hr, and Anderson at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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