Job Description

Overview

The Pipe Welder Fabricator is responsible for executing defined manufacturing processes to produce conforming parts while ensuring safety, quality, and production expectations are met.

Responsibilities

  • Execute assigned manufacturing processes per standard work.
  • Follow documented work instructions and inspection plans.
  • Verify part conformance at point of use.
  • Maintain safe work conditions and proper PPE usage.
  • Record production, scrap, and downtime data in required systems.
  • Escalate safety, quality, or process concerns immediately.
  • Maintain an organized and clean work area.
  • Report to work during assigned schedule.
  • Follow call-in protocol.
  • Remain at workstation during working times.
  • Follow Victaulic’s Code of Conduct.
  • Stop work for safety concerns.
  • Follow inspection plans.
  • Produce conforming parts.
  • Meet production targets.
  • Accurately record output in Mendix.
  • Follow known cycle times.
  • Stop work for quality concerns.
  • Provide floor support to production teams.
  • Support Victaulic Safety initiatives as an area representative.
  • Assist Production supervisor’s day-to-day activities when needed.
  • Balance production when required.
  • Provide guidance/training to new welders.
  • Track training and reinforcement efforts.
  • Conduct weekly touchpoints with employees and report observations to supervisors.

Requirements

  • Qualified in one Welder/Fabricator role for Level 1.
  • Qualified in two Welder/Fabricator roles for Level 2.
  • At minimum, holds Level 2 in both roles for Level 2.
  • Qualified in three or more Welder Fabricator roles for Level 3.
  • At minimum, holds Level 3 in three or more roles for Level 3.
  • All Level 3 Requirements for Welder/Fabricator - Lead.

How this job compares in Cookeville, TN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Tennessee currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$31/hr across 27 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 Cookeville, TN

Cookeville, TN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 71 other active welding openings from 50 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

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

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), Energy Jobline ZR (3), and JOST International (3). 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 Cookeville, TN

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