Job Description

Overview

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. is seeking a full-time Welder II in Honolulu, HI. This position involves welding metal components together to design specifications or repair products, using various welding and brazing procedures with different types of welding equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Provides welding support certified in TIG, MIG, and GMAW-P using 5356 filler wire.
  • Uses hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components.
  • Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strikes arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded.
  • Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds or bolts component parts for welding.
  • Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.
  • Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment using various welding processes.
  • Ensures shop safety and housekeeping are followed.
  • Ensures all materials and equipment are properly stored, protected, and maintained.
  • Reports the status and progress of all work to the government supervisor.
  • Alerts the government supervisor of the causes of work delays.
  • Monitors fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping of parts.
  • Examines work pieces for defects and measures them to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Performs welding methods using a mirror.
  • Performs work outside of trade if necessary.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Minimum 3 years work related experience.
  • Minimum 3 years specific experience as a qualified production welder.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain access to military and government installations.
  • Ability to read, speak, and understand English at a sufficient level.
  • Ability to communicate verbally and electronically.
  • Ability to read schematics and follow detailed instructions.
  • Ability to see details at close range.
  • Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time.
  • Ability to qualify to approved welding and brazing procedures.
  • Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
  • Knowledge of Qualify Craftsman 301 for civilians.
  • Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs and maintenance.
  • Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production.

How this job compares in Pearl City, HI

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Hawaii, where the middle half runs $32–$41/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 13% 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 Pearl City, HI

Pearl City, HI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Hawaii as a whole we're tracking 11 other active welding openings from 10 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Hawaii.

Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Hawaii, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Hawaii at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Alpha, Inc. (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 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. Welder II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.