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Overview

The Structural Welder position involves planning, laying out, welding, installing, testing, and repairing various types of pipe and tubular products according to industry standards and specifications. This role requires a high degree of precision and coordination with field crews to ensure efficient installations.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, diagram and lay-out for pipe welder’s work
  • Coordinate with field labor crew for efficient installations
  • Position the weld set up, fit the piping and perform welds involving a high degree of precision independently
  • Lay-out and assemble pipes accurately according to production standards, quality requirements, safety requirements, code, design, and specifications
  • Make welding repairs and substandard welds
  • Assist with coordination of any Pre-Fabrication layout or installation
  • Assist with rigging of material
  • Operate air arc gouger, grinder, stress relieving machine, and other industry machines, tools and equipment

Requirements

  • May require a high school diploma or its equivalent with previous years of experience in the field or in a related area
  • Must possess strong working knowledge skills and abilities for position
  • Ability to understand, follow and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management/supervision
  • Proficient in the safe and efficient use of electrical, hand tools, power tools and layout tools as well as measurement tools

Additional Information

  • The person in this position needs to constantly move about a construction/industrial site
  • Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime and holidays as required
  • May be required to use ladders/mechanical platforms/manlifts/scaffold to access required equipment/work areas
  • Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy and dusty environment
  • May be required/able to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across construction/industrial site
  • Must have required tools
  • May require U.S. driver license
  • Observe and comply with all safety and project rules, perform other duties as required
  • Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing
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How this job compares in Mobile, AL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Alabama currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $18–$33/hr across 42 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 Mobile, AL

We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Mobile, AL right now, from 5 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 104 other active welding openings from 62 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mobile, or widen the search to Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (15), Austal USA (9), and Staffmark (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Mobile, AL

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