Welding Instructor (2nd Shift)

Arcosa Careers • Hager City, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Meyer Utility Structures is searching for a Plant Welding Instructor for their Hager City, Wisconsin utility pole manufacturing plant. This role involves administering the plant's welder training program (pole school). The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on welding skills, visual weld inspection experience, and experience training and testing welding candidates. Meyer Utility Structures is a subsidiary of Arcosa, Inc., an infrastructure company known for reliable structures and product solutions in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of equivalent experience.
• 3 - 5 years of experience in FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma/air carbon arc, and layout/fit-up experience, preferably in the utility structure industry.
• Able to effectively present classroom training and hands-on welding application training.
• Proficient in conducting AWS D1.1 welder qualification tests and generating welder qualification records.
• Proficient in using various weld inspection tools such as amp/volt/wire feed/gas flow meters, fillet weld gages, undercut gages, etc.
• Able to read and comprehend welding symbols, welding procedure specifications, work instructions, drawings, bill of materials, etc.
• Possess written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Nice To Haves

• Welding-related associate degree desired.
• AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and/or AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE) desired.
• Bilingual (Spanish) desired.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily pole school operations.
• Maintain welder candidate training, testing, and qualification records.
• Perform hands-on welder candidate training for the FCAW, SAW, SMAW, plasma/oxyfuel cutting, and air-carbon-arc gouging processes.
• Conduct classroom training on welding safety, welding, and cutting processes, visual weld acceptance criteria, welding symbols, drawings, etc.
• Perform hands-on, pole layout and fit-up training.
• Provide additional training (OJT) to production welders as required.
• Assist in qualifying welding procedure specifications as required.
• Participate in welding improvement projects/other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level