WELDER

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Position Summary

Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Weld per AISC D1.1 per drawings in a quality and productive manner.

Steel Service:
Building Excellence, Empowering Careers

At Steel Service, we don’t just build steel structures—we build futures. Since 1969, we’ve been a trusted leader in the steel construction industry, completing major projects across the U.S. and beyond. Headquartered in Flowood, Mississippi, we’re proud to hold the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) certification with a Sophisticated Paint Endorsement (SPE), a testament to our commitment to quality.

Description

Department:
Operations

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Grade/Level

Job Type: Regular

Work Schedule:
Flexible Schedule

Job Status: Full Time

Reports To: Shop Foreman

Amount of Travel Required: None

Positions Supervised:
None

Position Summary

Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Weld per AISC D1.1 per drawings in a quality and productive manner.

Steel Service:
Building Excellence, Empowering Careers

At Steel Service, we don’t just build steel structures—we build futures. Since 1969, we’ve been a trusted leader in the steel construction industry, completing major projects across the U.S. and beyond. Headquartered in Flowood, Mississippi, we’re proud to hold the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) certification with a Sophisticated Paint Endorsement (SPE), a testament to our commitment to quality.

Our mission for our Welder position is simple: to be the Preferred Steel Contractor for customers worldwide. We achieve this through a culture of safety, excellence, and innovation, always delivering on time and exceeding expectations. Whether it’s engineering, fabrication, or installation, our team works with cutting-edge technology like 3D modeling to ensure precision and collaboration at every step.

But Steel Service is more than a workplace, it’s a place where your career thrives. We empower our employees with opportunities to grow, innovate, and make a real impact in an environment that values integrity and teamwork. If you’re looking for a career where you can be part of something big, join us in building the future, one beam at a time.

Ready to make your mark? Steel Service is waiting for you.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten…