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Job Description

Overview

Arcosa Telecom is looking to hire a Fitter/Welder Lead for its plant operation in Muskogee, OK. The role involves overseeing multiple activities, managing production operations, and ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure employees follow all safety procedures and protocols.
  • Manage daily production operations of heavy industrial products for assigned work group.
  • Set production schedules based on various factors to meet demand.
  • Overcome obstacles to achieve established safety, production, efficiency, and quality metrics.
  • Coach employees on work quality and quantity, ensuring goals are met.
  • Ensure the production of quality products at or below budgeted production costs.
  • Assist in continuous improvement activities for material movement.
  • Manage employees, monitor, and approve timesheets and work logs.
  • Assign employees to workstations and ensure proper training is completed.
  • Manage all aspects of fit up and welding processes for assigned work groups.

Requirements

  • No less than 2 years of demonstrated successful leadership experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
  • Experience in a metal fabrication or welding facility, specifically with flux and or metal core welding is highly preferred.
  • Thorough knowledge of blueprints and layouts preferably related to tower structures.
  • A high degree of dependability, maturity, and strong leadership characteristics.

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is 4:00am-2:30pm, Monday – Thursday, with Fridays and Saturdays as production requires.
  • Regular and predictable attendance is required.
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How this job compares in Muskogee, OK

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Oklahoma currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$30/hr across 56 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 Muskogee, OK

Muskogee, OK currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 110 other active welding openings from 65 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Muskogee, or widen the search to Oklahoma.

Arcosa Telecom Structures, LLC currently has 4 other openings live in Oklahoma, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Alfa Laval (7), Hayden Industrial (6), 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 Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Catoosa at $29/hr, Broken Arrow at $27/hr, and Tulsa at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Muskogee, OK

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