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Job Description

Overview

Peak Utility Services Group is an integrated group of engineering and construction companies serving the Electric, Natural Gas and Telecommunications industry, providing a full suite of services including repair, replacement, maintenance, and installation of infrastructure through various subsidiaries. The Welder I position involves performing welding tasks in various positions and ensuring safety and quality in construction environments.

Responsibilities

  • Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Works with specialized equipment including welding and other necessary tools.
  • Works safely around backhoes, excavators, trenchers and dump trucks.
  • Cleans and prepares construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examines workpieces for defects and measures work pieces to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds or bolts component parts.
  • Selects and installs torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux according to specifications.
  • Determines required equipment and welding methods applying knowledge of metallurgy and welding techniques.
  • Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts.
  • Analyzes engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, and sketches to plan operations.
  • Marks or tags material with proper job number and identifying marks.
  • Prepares all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring cleanliness.
  • Preheats work pieces using torches and guides flames or electrodes for connection.
  • Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.
  • Cleans or degreases parts using wire brushes and portable grinders.
  • Sets up and uses ladders and shoring as necessary.
  • Uses fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
  • Cleans, checks fluid levels, and conducts visual inspections of vehicle/equipment.
  • Operates truck in compliance with safety regulations.
  • Maintains paperwork including DVIR and driver’s log book.
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How this job compares in Wrentham, MA

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts, whose middle half runs $25–$35/hr across 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Wrentham, MA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Wrentham, MA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 37 other active welding openings from 29 employers. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.

The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Boston, MA (6), Jobot (2), and Waste Connections (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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