Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

The Welding Engineer position in Lima, OH involves oversight of welding at Electric Boat Suppliers and manufacturing facilities, providing technical guidance and expertise for both Nuclear and Nonnuclear applications. The role includes ensuring compliance with welding policies, evaluating performance, and interacting with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Welders are working to appropriate policies and procedures.
  • Review and monitor welding onboarding and training programs.
  • Provide technical evaluation of welding non-conformances.
  • Review Supplier welding performance and Program Administration documentation for compliance to specification requirements.
  • Evaluate and oversee Supplier and Electric Boat Welder performance.
  • Review and ensure compliance with fabrication and welding specifications.
  • Maintain company standards, procedures, best practices, and process improvements in the field on welding.
  • Provide technical guidance and expertise with respect to construction support and problem resolution.
  • Interact with various departments and organizations as required.
  • Prepare technical reports as a result of auditing, testing, research and development, and investigations.
  • Travel to alternate Suppliers and Electric Boat facilities approximately 30% of the year.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering.
  • 5+ years of post graduate professional engineering experience.
  • Understanding of the fundamentals of welding metallurgy (preferred).
  • Experience working with either commercial or military welding specifications (preferred).
  • Experience in an industrial welding environment, shipbuilding or other heavy fabrication (preferred).
  • Ability to effectively read, write, and interpret specifications, procedures, reports, drawings and other documents.
  • Strong verbal and communication skills.
  • Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Interpersonal and communication skills necessary to investigate problems.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Basic computer skills, including use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point (or equivalent).

Additional Information

  • Position located in Lima, OH.
  • Approximate 3-month extended work assignment travel period between Groton, CT and Quonset Point, RI for onboarding and training.

Benefits

Vision
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Groton, CT

Pay in context

At roughly $47/hr, this posting sits about 62% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Connecticut — toward the top of a $27–$33/hr middle band drawn from 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 93% 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 Groton, CT

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Groton, CT, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Connecticut as a whole we're tracking 26 other active welding openings from 20 employers. Browse welding jobs across Connecticut.

The most active employers in Connecticut at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Pursuit Aerospace (5), Barnes Aerospace (2), and Burt Process Equipment (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. 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.

Similar openings near Groton, CT

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