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Overview

The Fitter/Welder position at Armoda involves the fabrication, welding, and installation of steel components for blast-resistant modular buildings and other industrial structures. The role requires proficiency in various welding techniques and adherence to safety and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

  • Proficiently welds components in flat, vertical and overhead positions.
  • Performs daily fit up and lay out duties.
  • Fabricates pieces, ensuring conformance with product specifications and blueprints.
  • Maintains schedule and budgets for the task at hand and overall project.
  • Cross-trains and uses additional trade skills in multiple stages of the manufacturing process as assigned.
  • Follows established safety and security rules and regulations and maintains a safe and clean work area and environment.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of structural steel welding experience.
  • Knowledge of proper fitting/welding techniques.
  • Must be able to read and interpret blueprints and product specifications.
  • Basic math skills with ability to read tape measure.
  • Ability to successfully use hand tools such as grinders, tape measure, squares, come-a-longs, torches, plasma, and other tools specific for job task.
  • Basic computer skills.
  • Must pass onsite 3G/4G weld test and offsite, third-party Short Arc and/or Flux Core MIG test during interview process.
  • Ability to obtain company required welding certifications within 2 attempts, within 45 days of employment.
  • Must be able to pass a company pre-employment background check and drug screen.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in New Iberia, LA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Louisiana, where the middle half runs $27–$36/hr across 26 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 15% 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 New Iberia, LA

New Iberia, LA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 91 other active welding openings from 56 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Louisiana.

The most active employers in Louisiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are PALA Interstate (7), Worley (6), and GrayWolf (5). 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 MIG and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication 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.

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