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Overview

BASF ECMS is hiring Welders for aerospace applications, offering a competitive pay range and a comprehensive benefits package. The role involves welding and fabricating converters while ensuring safety and quality standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Weld and fabricate converters for aerospace applications using manual GTAW (TIG welding).
  • Report to the Contact Supervisor and ensure safety, quality, and productivity standards are met.

Requirements

  • High school diploma, GED, or technical (2 yr) degree preferred.
  • Ability to perform basic visual weld inspections.
  • Ability to read and translate prints, drawings, and interpret codes, procedures, and work instructions.
  • Basic math skills to perform measurements.
  • Experience meeting quality specs and standards per design specifications.
  • Experience utilizing measurement tools (calipers, gauges, etc.).
  • Experience or previous weld certifications of AWS D17.1 standards for at least 1 year.
  • Preferred experience with manual GTAW (TIG Welding) welding with stainless steel or 625 Inconel materials for 3+ years.
  • Preferred experience with thin materials (0.063"-0.025").
  • Preferred experience fitting up, welding joints, and utilizing fixtures to weld.
  • Preferred experience in troubleshooting joint fit ups, welding issues, etc.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Wellness Programs
  • PTO
  • Employee Discounts
  • Pet Insurance

Additional Information

  • Must be able to work day shift.
  • Flexibility to work overtime as assigned for business-critical needs.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Disability Insurance
Life Insurance
Wellness Programs
PTO
Employee Discounts
Pet Insurance
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How this job compares in Huntsville, AL

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 35% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama — toward the top of a $21–$34/hr middle band drawn from 41 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 83% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Huntsville, AL

We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Huntsville, AL right now, from 6 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 93 other active welding openings from 56 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Huntsville, or widen the search to Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (10), Austal USA (10), and Staffmark (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 TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. DOT-FAA Welder I & II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.