Job Description

Overview

The Pipe Welder Journeyman is responsible for planning, laying out, welding, installing, testing, and repairing various types of pipes and tubular products according to industry standards and specifications. This skilled position 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.
  • Estimate sizes, distances, and quantities; or determine time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Inspect subordinate's work for compliance with the contract plans and specifications, point out deficiencies and take corrective action.

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

  • Must be able to stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.
  • Constantly works in a construction environment and will be exposed to changing outdoor weather conditions.
  • 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.
  • Weld test required.
  • Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing.

How this job compares in Lenexa, KS

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Kansas currently run a median of $31/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$34/hr across 8 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 Lenexa, KS

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lenexa, KS, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Kansas as a whole we're tracking 23 other active welding openings from 14 employers. Browse welding jobs across Kansas.

The most active employers in Kansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Schuff Steel (3), Tallgrass (2), and Boeing (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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