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Overview

RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Welder I for its Operations Team in North Berwick, Maine. This role involves repairing jet engine components and offers an opportunity to work in a state-of-the-art facility.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and perform hand fusion, machine welding or other associated metal joining processes.
  • Work from drawings, sketches, welding machine schedules, and verbal and written instructions.
  • Make required settings to equipment, gas flow, and other parameters to obtain quality welds.
  • Prepare parts for welding, align and secure details.
  • Operate computer-controlled welding equipment and manipulate hand welding torch.
  • Utilize X-Ray film or black light process to determine extent of repairs required.
  • Use measuring instruments to check dimensions and record results.
  • Perform routine servicing throughout the assigned area following specified procedures.
  • Maintain appropriate metal joining certifications.
  • Refer difficult problems to supervisor or working leader.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • 1 plus years of related experience, or a completed degree/certificate from a post-secondary or vocational school in a related field.
  • Ability to certify and maintain a welding certification in a minimum of two metal groups.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
  • Excellent computer skills.
  • Flexibility around shifts, including overtime.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This is a 2nd shift position, Monday-Thursday, from 3:30pm to 1:30am.
  • Location: US-ME-NORTH BERWICK-113 Wells St.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Maine, whose middle half runs $26–$41/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 22% 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 NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME

NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Maine as a whole we're tracking 12 other active welding openings from 9 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, or widen the search to Maine.

Collins Aerospace currently has 3 other openings live in Maine, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Maine at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Collins Aerospace (3) and United States Fleet Forces Command (2). 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 NORTH BERWICK-113 ~ 113 Wells St ~ WELLS, Rte 9, ME

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