Job Description

Overview

With projects throughout the US, the company has a fully loaded backlog of work that can provide continued employment. Projects include Medical buildings, Scheel stores, Universal Studio addition, Fitness centers, and Netflix studios.

Responsibilities

  • Bolt-up structural members following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
  • Weld 3G and 4G.
  • Rig structural-steel members to hoist cables using chains or cables.
  • Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place using cranes or signal hoisting equipment operators.
  • Detail work may include installing angle and bent plate, welding clips, joists, tube steel or angle kickers, installing safety cable and safety posts, or shaking out and spreading joists and long spans.
  • Assemble and plumb structural steel, install deck, and weld steel stairs, handrail, and guardrail.
  • Field fabrication or assembly of metal parts such as steel frames, columns, beams, and girders according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
  • Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, and valves depending on types of structures being assembled.

Requirements

  • Use all safety and personal protective equipment for the purpose intended.
  • Use of safety harness and lanyard for proper tie off.
  • Operate boom lift and scissor lift.
  • Pull, push, or pry structural-steel members into approximate positions for bolting into place.
  • Walk/stand on girders or other structural-steel members to position them or use rope to guide them into position.

Benefits

  • PTO

Benefits

PTO

How this job compares in Billings, MT

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Montana currently run a median of $22/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $18–$27/hr across 8 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 Billings, MT

Billings, MT is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Montana as a whole we're tracking 10 other active welding openings from 8 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Montana.

The most active employers in Montana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Applied Materials (2) and William M Kronmiller & Co., Inc. (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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