Becoming a welder typically starts with technical training or an apprenticeship, which combines hands-on experience with classroom learning, allowing individuals to earn while they learn. Apprenticeships and technical training programs last about 6 to 18 months, requiring many hours of training under licensed professionals. The American Welding Society reports 771,000 welders nationwide and projects a 2-3% job growth from 2025 to 2029. Apprentices earn an average of $50 per hour in Morgan City, LA, with an annual overtime average of $10,000. Trade schools, unions, and platforms like AWS help aspiring welders find apprenticeship opportunities, leading to a career with strong earning potential—often exceeding $80,000 annually for experienced professionals.
We are now accepting resumes/applications for EXPERIENCED Structural Welders for the Morgan City, LA, and surrounding area. Duties/Responsibilities may/may not be limited to the following: • Job Scope: • Welders manage the machines that manufacture and repair metal structures, tools, and equipment. Other duties include planning layouts and measurements and testing welded surfaces. • Welding as needed • Position Requirements: • MUST have experience with FLUXCORE & 3G/4G • Required Skills: • Must have welding and fabricating experience • Must be able to weld in various positions • Must be able to read and understand blueprint drawings. • Excellent math skills with ability to efficiently read a tape measure • Excellent problem solving skills • Excellent communication skills • Demonstrate strong work ethic • Demonstrate consistency in quality of work • Duties/Responsibilities: • May layout and mark weld points on parts or subassemblies using ruler, square, scribe or templates • Positions pieces to be welded into jigs, holding fixtures, guides and steps using measuring instruments and hand tools • Clamps, holds, tack-welds, grinds, and bolts components to position for welding. • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. • Operates cutting equipment including torches and various power and hand tools • Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers. • Safely operates iron worker, grinders, overhead cranes, rigging, pipe threading machine, welding machine, and various pneumatic hand tools • Assembly of components with some fabrication of equipment needed for the job with minimal supervision • Mange housekeeping activities when requested. • Maintain the work area clean, safe and organized. • Assist in waste disposal and recycling activities • Cleanup work area and equipment after work is completed. • Execute daily work instructions received from Supervisor in a timely manner. • Work effectively to meet or exceed productivity goals while maintaining high quality standards. • Practice safety procedures in accordance with training and guidelines when working. • Comply with company policies and legal guidelines, helping to maintain a safe and orderly work environment • Meet quality and performance requirements as outlined by quality assurance and production standards • Report safety hazards, quality, and production issues to management immediately • Physical Requirements: • Must be able to lift up to 50 LBS • Must be able to stand, bend, stoop, squat, or kneel regularly, as well as climb stairs and ladders to complete tasks. • Ability to work outdoors in harsh weather conditions • Ability to work in varying hot and cold environments • Ability to work in an environment with exposures to dust, dirt and various other debris, metal and paint fumes, gases • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions • The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock • Documents Required: • Driver's License/Identification Card • Social Security Card/Birth Certificate • Must be able to pass a drug test. • Must have reliable transportation • Must have own welding shield and PPE (hard hat, steel toes, gloves, & safety glasses.) • Pay: • $28.00 - $30.00 (DOE) • Weekly Pay • Pay Schedule: Monday - Sunday • Schedule: • Monday - Friday (Weekends as needed) • 10-12 Hour Days (with weather permitting) Qualified candidates can submit a resume, apply on http://ejob.bz/ATS/jb.do?reqGK=27089666&portalGK=14432
See More Details >>• Weld Components in flat, vertical, and overhead positions. • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers. • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces 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 • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. • 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 arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding. • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations. • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required. • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment. • Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers. • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter. • Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces. • Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information. • Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools. • Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal. • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors. • Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths. • Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives. • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools. • Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts. • Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments. • Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears. • Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work. • Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces. • Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment, such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment. • Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies. • Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials. • Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary. • Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process. • Mix and apply protective coatings to products. • Operate brazing and soldering equipment. Employment Type: FULL_TIME
See More Details >>Position: Combo Welder Experience: 3+ years as Structural Welder and Pipe Welder About Allison Integrated Support Solutions for the Gulf of Mexico Allison aggressively provides innovative, integrated, land and marine based support services to client operators in the Gulf of Mexico. We are uniquely positioned to provide the people, ideas, equipment, and facilities to carry out an organized plan for exploration and production activities, literally " from the cradle to grave.” The core of Allison is its skilled craftsmen and experienced supervisors who have proven their ability to perform high quality work and deliver it on time. • Work location:Fabrication Shop in Amelia, La. • Full benefits, great work schedule Job Responsibilities • A member of the construction team reporting to Allison Welder Foreman. • Welds components in flat, vertical and overhead positions. • TIG weld also/or welds Flux Core Arch Welding. • Sets up and operates hand and power tools common to welding trade. • Lay out, position, align and secure parts for welding. • Participate in JSA’s and all other Safety, Health and Environmental Processes. • Conduct behavioral based safety observations. Skills & Experience • Prior Structural Fabrication experience required. • Experience using safe work habits. Candidates Will Be Required To Pass • 6G 2" • 6G 6" • 6GR All applicants must apply online in order to be considered. Walk in applications are not available.
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