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Overview

Our client is a leading manufacturer in Canton, OH, looking for a Weld Supervisor to join their second shift team. The Weld Supervisor will be responsible for all aspects of the weld department, including safety, production, and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for all safety aspects of the weld department and the company.
  • Assist and support the welding team and/or project teams on all welding matters.
  • TIG/MIG and braze all metals.
  • Review customer specifications, examine structures, and prepare detailed welding procedures.
  • Complete all required reports, checklists, and data entries accurately and consistently.
  • Generate ideas and implement change to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee morale.
  • Investigate, analyze, and implement permanent corrective action related to customer or internal product and process concerns.
  • Provide training, testing, career development, and employee evaluations, and set expectations to hold employees accountable.

Requirements

  • 5-10 years of demonstrated success in welding operations.
  • Knowledge of welding processes, blueprint reading, and safety.
  • Excellent attendance.
  • Demonstrated industrial management or supervisory experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret instruction, direct, coach, and train.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize work, oversee progress, and take corrective action.
  • Familiar with both Miller and Fronius welders.
  • Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
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How this job compares in Louisville, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 50% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio — toward the top of a $23–$30/hr middle band drawn from 72 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 94% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Louisville, OH

Louisville, OH is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 136 other active welding openings from 89 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (7), Staffmark (5), and Pro Mechanical Services (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $28/hr and Cincinnati 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 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.

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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. Weld Supervisor figures were last recalculated when this page was built.