Installation Welder

Career Opportunities with Central States Industrial (CSI)

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CSI is currently recruiting for an experienced Welder to join our Field Installation team. In this role, you will work as part of a team installing sanitary process systems at customer locations throughout the country. This is a hands‑on position requiring strong TIG welding skills, attention to detail, mechanical ability, and a commitment to safety and customer service.

Our installation teams are the face of CSI to our customers. Successful team members take pride in their work, represent CSI professionally, and work safely and effectively in a variety of customer environments.

• Perform TIG welding of sanitary stainless‑steel tubing and process piping to meet customer and CSI quality requirements
• Perform grinding, polishing, and finishing of welded components
• Assist with pipe fitting and installation activities as needed
• Accurately read and interpret tape measurements, scales, blueprints, drawings, and schematics
• Operate forklifts, scissor lifts, torches, saws, drill motors, plasma torches, Fischer saws, and other equipment
• Follow established safety procedures and properly use required personal protective equipment
• Work effectively as part of a field installation team while maintaining a professional presence at customer facilities
• Travel to customer locations and work overnight and/or weekend assignments as required
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment
• Take ownership of assigned work and complete installations according to specifications, quality standards, and customer expectations

You don’t need to know everything, but you do need the right mindset.

• Experienced welder with strong TIG welding skills
• Mechanically inclined with the ability to understand and apply welding and pipe‑fitting techniques
• Detail‑oriented and committed to producing quality work
• Takes pride in workmanship and accepts responsibility for work performed
• Safety‑conscious and committed to following established safety practices
• Comfortable working in active field environments and at customer facilities
• Able to work effectively as part of a team
• Willing and able to travel extensively as required

• Strong attention to detail is necessary to complete work as required
• Good understanding of welding techniques and the ability to apply those techniques to produce quality work for the customer
• Ability to accurately read and interpret measurements, blueprints, drawings, and schematics
• Pride of ownership and accepting responsibility for work performed are key personal characteristics
• Ability to safely operate required tools and equipment
• Commitment to safety and professional customer service

• TIG welding experience —
  required
• 2–3 years of sanitary tube welding experience —
  required
• Pipe‑fitting experience —
  required
• Experience operating basic construction equipment —
  required
• Forklift and scissor lift experience
• Experience operating drill motors, plasma torches, Fischer saws, and related equipment
• Experience working at customer facilities —
  preferred

Overnight and/or weekend travel is necessary and may, at times, be as much as 100%. Travel may be by air or company vehicle. A valid Class E driver’s license, or the ability to obtain one, is required.

CSI provides required tools, travel, hotel accommodations, meals, and other miscellaneous travel expenses associated with the position.

Field installation positions are very active and require frequent and/or continuous standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. The…