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Overview

The Lead Welder (3rd) position requires advanced welding operations in various positions, focusing on structural and cosmetic repairs across multiple materials. The role involves leading a team, organizing workflow, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards while supporting various maintenance needs at Universal Orlando.

Responsibilities

  • Plans and delegates work tasks among qualified team members.
  • Implements planning and scheduling for the assigned shift.
  • Ensures proper completion of Maximo work orders.
  • Communicates performance expectations and provides feedback.
  • Reinforces company safety guidelines and reports non-compliance.
  • Monitors employees’ productivity and work habits.
  • Leads startup and stoppage, schedules breaks.
  • Monitors care, condition, use, and storage of tools and equipment.
  • Maintains material inventories.
  • Ensures compliance with wardrobe/grooming standards and other UO policies.
  • Completes documentation, traveler packages, and weld logs.
  • Coordinates with other departments as needed.
  • Provides two-way communication between work team and management.
  • Performs job duties as described in non-lead job description.
  • Assists with training new and current employees.
  • Participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities.

Requirements

  • Associate of Science degree (AS) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school preferred.
  • 5+ years of required welding experience and company certification equal to 6G.
  • Six months to one year experience providing work direction preferred.
  • Valid Florida Driver’s License required.
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How this job compares in Orlando, FL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Florida currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$31/hr across 122 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Orlando, FL

We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Orlando, FL right now, from 12 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 268 other active welding openings from 149 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Orlando, or widen the search to Florida.

Universal Orlando Resort currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (16), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (13), and BAE Systems (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $32/hr, Cape Canaveral at $29/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. Orlando is among them.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.

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. Lead Welder (3rd) (TIG Experience) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.