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Overview

Reinicke Athens Inc (RAI) is a single-source steel fabricator and construction firm that provides a full range of design, engineering, fabrication, and erection services. They are seeking full-time, experienced Flux Core Structural Welders for their Williamston, SC location.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to all safety procedures, including wearing all proper PPE.
  • Operate a welding machine to join parts together, utilizing proper techniques for different joint types, positions, and thicknesses.
  • Clean, grind, and prepare metal to ensure proper weld penetration.
  • Accurately interpret drawings and prints to understand the required weld specifications, joint types, and positioning of components.
  • Measure and cut using power tools, plasma cutters, and oxy-fuel torches.
  • Visually inspect welds for defects like porosity, slag inclusions, and undercut.
  • Regularly clean and maintain welding equipment, including the wire feeder and power supply.
  • Must be able to pass a 3G weld test on 1” carbon plate with a backer bar.

Requirements

  • 3 – 5 years’ experience preferred.
  • Ability to pass an AWS weld test required.
  • Flux core welding experience required.
  • MIG and TIG experience preferred.
  • Stainless steel and aluminum experience a plus.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Day Shift Schedule: Typically 6am-4:30pm Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays required.
  • Overtime hours available.
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds.
  • Ability to stand for extended periods and safely maneuver around various construction equipment and vehicles on an active construction site.
  • Regularly encounter moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, and a variety of outside weather conditions.
  • Ability to climb temporary or permanent stairs and ladders.
  • Able to bend, squat, kneel, crawl, crouch, balance, stoop, and reach regularly.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Williamston, SC

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across South Carolina currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$36/hr across 59 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 Williamston, SC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Williamston, 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 110 other active welding openings from 83 employers. Browse welding jobs across South Carolina.

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 and Anderson at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

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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