Job Description

Overview

For over 100 years, BlueScope has built a reputation for quality brands and products, leading technology, and a customer-first spirit. The Welder 2 operates independently to join, fabricate, and repair metal and other weldable materials using appropriate techniques and equipment, while ensuring compliance with safety and quality policies.

Responsibilities

  • Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
  • Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications and determine structural soundness.
  • Review engineering drawings and blueprints to determine material requirements and task sequences.
  • Work on complex level work, including special projects, fabricating fixtures and jigs, and job site repairs.
  • Participate in continuous improvement and corrective action activities.
  • Layout material and set up for automated devices or robotic welding.
  • Provide training and mentoring to new Welders.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent, or ACT WorkKeys Assessment at certified job profile skill level.
  • 3+ years of welding related experience.
  • AWS D.1.1 Welder Certification preferred.
  • 1-year certificate from a technical school preferred.
  • 5+ years of welding related experience preferred.
  • Ability to successfully pass AWS D.1.1 Welder certification test.
  • Ability to accurately use measuring devices to perform inspections on finished products.
  • Understanding of blueprints/drawings and the ability to interpret and apply design aspects to current projects.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • PTO
  • Retirement

Benefits

Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
PTO
Retirement

How this job compares in Rainsville, AL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Alabama currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$34/hr across 46 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 Rainsville, AL

Rainsville, AL currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 97 other active welding openings from 62 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Rainsville, or widen the search to Alabama.

BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. currently has 3 other openings live in Alabama, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (9), Austal USA (8), and Staffmark (4). 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 Rainsville, AL

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