Job Description

Overview

IMI Industrial Services Group is a full-service industrial contractor based in Juliette, GA, seeking a full-time Ironworker/Structural Welder. The company emphasizes safety, integrity, quality, and production in delivering quality projects and skilled craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

  • Assist senior employees with installing, dismantling, and moving machines, conveyors, and other equipment.
  • Interpret structural drawings.
  • Understand and perform crane signaling procedures.
  • Align and bolt structural steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place per structural drawings.
  • Understand and perform proper rigging techniques.
  • Direct cranes to move structural steel components and other materials onto and around the construction site.
  • Connect steel columns, beams, and girders with drift pins to align the holes in the steel with the framework holes.
  • Drill and/or ream holes into steel for bolting.
  • Number steel according to assembly instructions.
  • Unload and safely stack steel on cribbing.
  • Position steel with connecting bars and spud wrenches.
  • Use plumb bobs, levels, and laser equipment to check alignment and elevations.
  • Welders should be able to pass an all-position SMAW exam.
  • Conduct welding operations under intense conditions such as extreme heights, confined spaces, and inclement weather.
  • Troubleshoot structures to identify and initiate repair of welding defects.
  • Identify and repair damaged coatings during installation.
  • Pre-engineered Metal Building (PEMB) Erection experience is a plus.

Requirements

  • 3+ years' experience.
  • NCCER or AWS certification or completion of a related program through an accredited technical school is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Must be able to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push-pull, lift, grasp, twist, and bend for extended periods of time.
  • Must be able to work indoors and outdoors, including times of inclement weather.
  • Must be highly safety cautious and have ability to see and escape from dangerous situations.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Juliette, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, structural welder jobs across Georgia currently run a median of $48/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $32–$67/hr across 11 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 Juliette, GA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Juliette, GA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 410 other active welding openings from 260 employers. Browse welding jobs across Georgia.

IMI Industrial Services Group currently has 4 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (9), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7), and Yancey Bros. Co. (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marietta at $39/hr, Forest Park at $39/hr, and Atlanta at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

See all structural welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Ironworker/Structural Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.