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Overview

We are looking for a confident Weld Trainer with experience in onboarding and training new welders to join our team in Cleveland, OH. This role involves delivering hands-on training and mentoring to ensure trainees meet aerospace industry standards for safety, quality, and productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Train, mentor, and certify new welders
  • Provide ongoing skills development, coaching, and performance feedback to welding personnel
  • Monitor workmanship, weld quality yields, and compliance with specifications and blueprints
  • Conduct over-inspection of weld samples/parts to verify quality standards
  • Develop and improve welding methods, techniques, and equipment for production applications
  • Share best practices with other facilities
  • Plan and execute weld repairs on potentially scrap castings
  • Maintain weld wire, weld cap, and related inventory controls
  • Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities to problem solve casting repair and/or operator techniques
  • Support time expectations for work completion
  • Audit standard work and ensure adherence to established procedures
  • Collaborate with Engineers and Supervisors to evaluate trainees and address training issues
  • Define tools and supplies needed for training and production support
  • Perform additional duties as assigned to support department and organizational goals

Requirements

  • Certified Welder via AMS2694 or relevant AWS certification
  • Minimum 5 years of professional welding experience in industrial, manufacturing, or fabrication environments
  • Minimum 2 years' experience onboarding and training new weld trainees
  • Demonstrated ability to train, coach, and collaborate effectively
  • Self-driven, disciplined, and able to manage multiple priorities with a strong sense of urgency
  • Ability to support development of new welding techniques, work instructions, and implementation of new technologies

Additional Information

  • Location: Cleveland, OH (On-Site)
  • Work Authorization: USC
  • Salary: Between $70k to $80K
  • Ability to travel on a limited basis
  • Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States
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How this job compares in Bay Village, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 39% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio — toward the top of a $23–$32/hr middle band drawn from 112 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Bay Village, OH

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Bay Village, OH, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 172 other active welding openings from 111 employers. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TP Mechanical (8), Phillips Tank & Structure (5), and Aerotek (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $32/hr, Canton at $29/hr, and Cleveland at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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