Welding Technician - Multiple Shifts

Arcosa Careers•Lancaster, SC

8h•Onsite

About The Position

Meyer Utility Structures (MUS), an Arcosa subsidiary, is seeking a Plant Welding Technician for its utility pole manufacturing plant in Lancaster, South Carolina. The technician provides hands-on welding and technical support, including troubleshooting welding processes, improving processes, and ensuring conformance with procedures and codes. The role serves as a welding subject matter expert for production welders, supervisors, and other plant personnel, and oversees daily pole school operations, including candidate training, testing, qualification, and recordkeeping. The technician trains welders in the shop and classroom on welding and cutting processes, safety, visual weld acceptance criteria, symbols, drawings, pole layout, and fit-up. The role also supports welding procedure qualification and improvement projects. Work takes place in production and non-production areas and on plant grounds, in a manufacturing environment with high and low temperatures and loud noise. The role may require work beyond normal hours and on weekends or holidays.

Requirements

Three to five years of FCAW, SAW, and SMAW welding experience.
Proficiency using weld inspection tools such as amp/volt/wire-feed/gas-flow meters, fillet weld gauges, and undercut gauges.
Ability to read and comprehend welding symbols, welding procedure specifications, work instructions, drawings, and bills of materials.
Working knowledge of AWS D1.1 welding procedure specifications.
Working knowledge of weld filler materials and base materials.
Written and oral communication skills.
Regular and predictable attendance, a positive attitude, and the ability to work well with a team toward a common goal.
Ability to work one of the stated schedules: 9:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m., Monday–Thursday, or 7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m., Friday–Sunday.

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and/or AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE) certification.
Welding-related associate degree.

Responsibilities

Provide welding support to production welders, supervisors, and other plant personnel.
Troubleshoot welding techniques and routine equipment issues.
Maintain welder continuity records, welding equipment calibration records, and flux oven logs.
Evaluate, propose, and implement welding process improvements to increase efficiency and quality.
Provide welding training on the shop floor and in a classroom as required.
Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications.
Participate in internal improvement teams and welding improvement projects, and perform other duties as required.
Oversee daily pole school operations.
Maintain welder candidate training, testing, and qualification records.
Provide hands-on training for FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma and oxyfuel cutting, and air-carbon-arc gouging.
Conduct classroom training on welding safety, welding and cutting processes, visual weld acceptance criteria, welding symbols, and drawings.
Provide hands-on pole layout and fit-up training.
Provide additional on-the-job training to production welders as required.