Welding Instructor - (Off Shift)
About this role
Meyer Utility Structures is searching for a Plant Welding Instructor. In this role, you will administer the Steele, Alabama utility pole manufacturing plant's welder training program (pole school). The Plant Welding Instructor will have strong hands-on welding skills, visual weld inspection experience, and experience training and testing welding candidates.
Meyer Utility Structures is a proud subsidiary of the infrastructure company, Arcosa, Inc. We commit to and pride ourselves on providing reliable structures, superior service, and product solutions. Meyer Utility Structures is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications.
What you'll do:
- Train, coach and develop Welding Technicians to ensure safe, consistent, and code-compliant welding practices
- Provide hands-on and classroom welding instruction using approved procedures
- Demonstrate proper welding techniques, joint preparation, and equipment setup
- Instruct Welding Technicians on utility pole weld applications and repair standards
- Evaluate weld quality and provide corrective feedback and coaching
- Support welder qualification, certification and re-certification testing
- Reinforce standardized welding practices across pole school locations
- Mentor Welding Technicians to improve skill level, consistency and workmanship
- Promote and enforce safe welding practices and PPE requirements
- Ensure training aligns with applicable welding codes, procedures and specifications
- Drive weld quality improvements through skill development and instruction
- Drive throughput
What you'll need:
- 3 - 5 years of 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.
- Welding-related associate degree desired.
- AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and/or AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE) desired.
- 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. Bilingual (Spanish) desired.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).
Company at a glance
Arcosa, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure-related products and solutions with leading brands serving construction, engineered structures, and transportation markets.
Our individual businesses have built reputations for quality, service, and operational excellence over decades. Arcosa serves a broad spectrum of infrastructure-related markets and is strategically focused on driving organic and disciplined acquisition growth to capitalize on the fragmented nature of many of the industries in which we operate. With Arcosa’s current platform of businesses and additional growth opportunities, we are well- aligned with key market trends, such as the replacement and growth of aging transportation infrastructure, the continued shift to renewable power generation, and the expansion of new transmission, distribution, and telecommunications infrastructure. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ACA.
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