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Job Description

Overview

The Welder position involves maintaining, fabricating, installing, repairing, and replacing facility piping systems and related components. The role requires working in confined spaces and at heights, utilizing various tools and equipment to ensure the efficient operation of maintenance tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Maintains, fabricates, installs, repairs and/or replaces piping systems, valves, heat exchangers, and safety relief systems.
  • Repairs and maintains cracking furnaces and reactors.
  • Utilizes electric, air and hydraulically driven tools and equipment.
  • Utilizes cutting equipment.
  • Rigs for lifting equipment.
  • Performs preventative maintenance.
  • Cleans up work area following completion of assigned job task and properly disposes of waste materials.
  • Returns tools and equipment to normal storage areas.
  • Completes other routine or assigned duties as necessary to meet the maintenance department work schedule.

Requirements

  • Minimum four years industrial pipe welding experience with high nickel alloys such as Stainless, Hastelloy, Inconel, and Nickel.
  • Attainment of qualifying skills in two additional maintenance crafts sufficient to assist other craftsmen.
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How this job compares in Calvert City, KY

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Kentucky currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$33/hr across 20 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 Calvert City, KY

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Calvert City, KY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 36 other active welding openings from 28 employers. Browse welding jobs across Kentucky.

The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Michelin (2), Express Employment Professionals Defunct (2), and Hendrickson (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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