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Overview

This position is for a Welder on the Weekend Shift at RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company. The role involves welding jet engine components and requires U.S. citizenship due to security access requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and perform hand fusion, machine welding or other associated metal joining processes.
  • Work from drawings, sketches, welding machine schedules, and verbal and written instructions.
  • Make required settings to equipment and gas flow to obtain quality welds.
  • Prepare parts for welding, align and secure details.
  • Operate computer-controlled welding equipment and manipulate hand welding torch.
  • Utilize X-Ray film or black light process to determine extent of repairs required.
  • Use measuring instruments to check dimensions and record results.
  • Perform routine servicing of equipment following specified procedures.
  • Refer difficult problems to supervisor or working leader.
  • Maintain appropriate metal joining certifications.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • 1+ years of related experience, or a completed degree/certificate from a post-secondary or vocational school in a related field.
  • Certify and maintain a welding certification in a minimum of two metal groups.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
  • Excellent computer skills.
  • Flexibility around shifts, including overtime.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Weekend shift: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 5:00am - 5:30pm.
  • Work 36 hours paid for 40 hours.
  • Onsite role.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Maine, whose middle half runs $24–$41/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 27% 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 NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME

NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Maine as a whole we're tracking 15 other active welding openings from 12 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, or widen the search to Maine.

Collins Aerospace currently has 3 other openings live in Maine, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Maine at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Collins Aerospace (3) and U.S. Coast Guard (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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder , Weekend Shift ( Onsite) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.