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Overview

Maysteel LLC designs, engineers, and manufactures custom original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sheet metal enclosures, kiosks, cabinets, and racks. As a Welder I, you’ll support metal fabrication by preparing materials, interpreting drawings, and completing welds and assemblies to specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain safe work environment using personal protective equipment and proper lifting techniques.
  • Perform MIG weld processes based on project needs.
  • Have basic blueprint knowledge.
  • Deburr and grind metal as necessary to achieve proper surface texture.
  • Gain knowledge and inspection practice to ensure conformance to Quality specifications.
  • Inform Management or Lead of any part or equipment defects.
  • Start up and stop routine operations related to arcwelding equipment.
  • Familiarize yourself with tools, instrumentation, and calibration equipment.
  • Clean production area by sweeping, mopping, and removing debris.
  • Load and unload items from machines, carts, and dollies.
  • Feed or place items onto equipment for processing.
  • Ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Mark parts for identification.
  • Place equipment on conveyor belt for further processing.
  • Scrape waste material from machine.
  • Read and interpret gauges.
  • Record data.
  • Use Epicor ERP to log into and out of jobs.
  • Take instructions from Management and Lead person.
  • Conserve resources and supplies to minimize waste.
  • Work from routings, manufacturing instruction sheets, blueprints, visual aids, or other instructions.
  • Recommend and select proper tooling for required tasks.
  • Select proper fillers for jobs based on previous experience or project instructions.
  • Conserve resources to ensure budgetary integrity and client satisfaction.

Requirements

  • A high school diploma, GED, or equivalent experience with power and hand tools is a plus.
  • Basic Math and Communication skills required.
  • Arcweld certification is a plus.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person
  • Pay: $22.50 - $25.00 per hour

Benefits

401k
Dental
Health Insurance
PTO
Vision
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How this job compares in Lynchburg, VA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Virginia, where the middle half runs $24–$34/hr across 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Lynchburg, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lynchburg, VA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 128 other active welding openings from 70 employers. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.

The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. (14), General Dynamics NASSCO (10), and Atlantic Constructors, Inc. (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Virginia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Newport News at $38/hr, Norfolk at $30/hr, and Chesapeake 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. 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.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.