Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

Arcosa Wind Towers, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of structural wind towers in North America, focusing on excellence and offering premier value to customers. They are searching for Welders to fabricate and repair wind tower sections using semi-automatic and mechanized welding equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Proficiently perform welding on wind tower sections
  • Inspect completed work for conformance to specifications
  • Perform routine preventative maintenance of equipment
  • Maintain attendance within acceptable standards

Requirements

  • 1 Year Welding experience in GMAW, FCAW, SAW, or SMAW
  • Read Tape Measure
  • General tool usage including hand tools, torches, and grinders
  • Read, write, and speak proficiently in English
  • Follow directions
  • Effective interpersonal communicator, good listener and open to feedback
  • Desire to learn
  • Team player
  • Flexible
  • Attention to detail
  • Interest and aptitude in technology
  • Dependable and punctual
  • Strong work ethic
  • Adaptable
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • Resourcefulness

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work environment includes plant, warehouse, production and non-production areas and plant grounds
  • This position may require work/maintenance coverage beyond the normal hours, shift, and on weekends/holidays
  • Ability to tolerate both high and low temperatures, loud noises typical of a manufacturing plant

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Newton, IA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Iowa currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$35/hr across 19 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 Newton, IA

Newton, IA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Iowa as a whole we're tracking 40 other active welding openings from 35 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Iowa.

The most active employers in Iowa at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Army National Guard Units (3), Cushman & Wakefield (2), and Oshkosh Corporation (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick and Flux-Core work. 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. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

Similar openings near Newton, IA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.