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Overview

The Pipe Welder is responsible for performing high-quality pipe welding in industrial construction and maintenance projects, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. This role requires strong technical expertise and attention to detail to deliver quality welds and support complex piping systems.

Responsibilities

  • Weld pipe with consistent quality and safe work practices by understanding and following layouts, blueprints, and work orders.
  • Identify different types and preparation of materials used in pipe welding.
  • Able to walk the cup.
  • Understand proper care in handling materials.
  • Identify and use various types of welding tools, wires, and machines.
  • Troubleshoot by understanding blueprints, identifying issues, and taking corrective actions.
  • Perform initial QA/QC checks on finished work to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Gain exposure and experience of pipefitting.

Requirements

  • Minimum of three years of experience welding pipe in an industrial environment or two-year welding school.
  • Proficient in the use of cutting torch, plasma arc, and cutting machines.
  • Prior experience working off lifts or staging.
  • Prior rigging experience is a plus.
  • Ability to pass non-destructive weld testing (i.e. X-ray, sonogram) is a plus.
  • Willing to travel the Southern New England region.
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How this job compares in Glens Falls, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New York, whose middle half runs $28–$42/hr across 109 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% 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 Glens Falls, NY

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Glens Falls, NY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 165 other active welding openings from 106 employers. Browse welding jobs across New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (16), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (8), and Veterans Health Administration (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Bronx at $43/hr, New York at $40/hr, and Brooklyn at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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