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Overview

The High Purity Stainless Steel Welder is responsible for fabricating skids, tanks, and piping assemblies to engineers' specifications, requiring high craftsmanship and adherence to quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Perform GTAW (TIG) and GMAW (MIG) welding on high-purity stainless steel tubing, piping, and components.
  • Execute sanitary and orbital welds in accordance with project drawings, weld procedures, and customer specifications.
  • Prepare materials for welding including cleaning, cutting, fitting, and alignment of stainless steel and carbon steel components.
  • Inspect welds visually and with measurement tools to ensure conformance with quality standards.
  • Maintain weld logs, documentation, and traceability as required by project specifications.
  • Operate welding equipment including TIG welders, orbital welding machines, hand tools, and power tools.
  • Safely operate forklifts/scissor lifts.
  • Follow strict cleanliness and contamination control practices required for high-purity systems.
  • Work from blueprints, isometric drawings, and weld procedures.
  • Collaborate with fabrication, engineering, and quality teams to resolve welding or fit-up issues.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma (required)
  • 5 years of experience in related field
  • Knowledge in mechanical, carpentry, plumbing, mechanical drawings and welding, rigging, material handling.
  • General knowledge of equipment safety and operation (preferably OSHA 10, LOTO, confined space, fall protection, CPR, forklift, etc.)
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, semiconductor, food & beverage, or high-purity process industries.
  • Welding certifications (AWS, ASME, or equivalent).
  • Welding qualification for stainless steel or carbon steel (6G qualification preferred).
  • Knowledge of welding stainless steel, carbon steel, and custom fabrication.
  • Experience with orbital welding equipment.
  • Familiarity with ASME BPE or sanitary welding standards.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Manual dexterity and steady hand control for precision welding.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Must be able to walk and be on feet 80% of the day.
  • Must be able to bend, reach, kneel, and squat.
  • Manufacturing environment.
  • Must be able to handle varying levels of stress.
  • Must contribute to a positive working environment.
  • Must be a team player.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Cromwell, CT

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Connecticut, whose middle half runs $24–$34/hr across 26 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 Cromwell, CT

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Cromwell, CT, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Connecticut as a whole we're tracking 35 other active welding openings from 29 employers. Browse welding jobs across Connecticut.

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

The most active employers in Connecticut at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Pursuit Aerospace (3), AMETEK (2), and WIN Waste Innovations (2). 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 MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. 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.

See all exotic alloy welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.
  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

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