Welding Technician

Welding Technician Job Highlights

Company Profile

Arcosa provides infrastructure-related products and solutions with leading brands serving engineered structures, construction, and transportation markets.

Job Profile

The company (Arcosa Traffic Structures) is hiring a Welding Technician who will provide the manufacturing plant with welding and technical support such as welding process troubleshooting, welding process improvement, and procedure and code conformance.

Candidates should have strong hands-on welding skills, visual weld inspection experience, and experience using welding procedure specifications.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a welding related Associate’s Degree (desired) from a college/university
• AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) or AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE) – desired

Work Experience

• Possess 3 to 5 years of welding experience

Duties/Responsibilities

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

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Able to read and comprehend welding symbols, welding procedure specifications, work instructions, drawings, bills of materials, etc.
• Possess written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in using various weld inspection tools such as amp/volt/wire feed/gas flow meters, fillet weld gages, undercut gages, etc.
• Working knowledge of AWS D1.1 welding procedure specifications.
• Working knowledge of weld filler materials and base materials.

Employer’s Statement

Arcosa is an Equal Opportunity Employer.