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Overview

Core & Main, based in St. Louis, is a leader in advancing reliable infrastructure with a focus on water, wastewater, storm drainage, and fire protection products. The Certified Welder is responsible for permanently joining metal parts using high heat application and ensuring quality control in welding processes.

Responsibilities

  • Hand welds various fittings to different sizes of pipes and welding joints.
  • Interprets application job sheets and various sizes of welding fittings.
  • Analyzes all welds to ensure they are free of porosity and discontinuities.
  • Ensures all welds are visibly stamped or identified with markings to designate that welds were performed by a certified welder.
  • Reviews the order ticket and determines whether the work to be performed meets the customer's specifications.
  • Verifies the final product meets quality control standards.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Certified pressure pipe welder.
  • Experience in full pen welds and pipe fitting welds.
  • Ability to qualify and maintain all shop weld procedures.
  • Familiarity with API 1104 or ASME Section IX.
  • HS Diploma or GED, strongly preferred.
  • 0-2 years of experience in area of responsibility.

Additional Information

  • Ability to lift and carry up to 50lbs in a physical environment.
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How this job compares in Moravia, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 27% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $26–$40/hr across 86 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Moravia, NY

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Moravia, NY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 131 other active welding openings from 88 employers. Browse welding jobs across New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (12), Fluidstack (3), and Parker Hannifin (3). 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

  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.
  • API 1104 — the American Petroleum Institute standard for welding pipelines and related facilities. It is the governing code for cross-country transmission pipeline work.

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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