Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

The Pipe Welder position requires candidates to pass a 6G SMAW weld test and have experience in pipe welding, with opportunities for mentoring. The role involves maintaining tools, performing cleanup, and working with various welding techniques and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Join, fabricate, and repair metal and other weldable materials using appropriate welding techniques.
  • Interpret blueprints, specifications, diagrams, and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
  • Lay out and align piping components to assemble structural forms.
  • Inspect completed welds for bead size and structural soundness.
  • Apply knowledge of geometry, physical properties of metal machining, weld shrinkage, and welding techniques.
  • Use various welding processes including GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW, and SMAW/MMA.
  • Weld in 1G to 6G positions.
  • Work within precise limits and standards of accuracy.
  • Work at various heights.
  • Move equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
  • Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work atmosphere and job site.

Requirements

  • Must pass a 6G SMAW weld test.
  • Experience in the pipe welding field or enrolled in a mentoring program.
  • Basic knowledge of the welding field.
  • Must have own hand tools.
  • Ability to read and interpret schematic drawings and weld procedures.
  • Application of basic math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals.
  • Ability to use mechanical charts, conversion tables, and other charts used in the welding industry.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Normal work shifts are from 7:00am to 3:30pm.
  • Positions available both on the road and in-house.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Greensboro, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Georgia currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$32/hr across 96 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 Greensboro, GA

Greensboro, GA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 269 other active welding openings from 145 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Georgia.

B&S Piping, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (14), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $36/hr, Marietta at $30/hr, and Atlanta at $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core 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 pipe 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.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

Similar openings near Greensboro, GA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipe Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.