Structural Layout Technician

About the role

Pillar Innovations is an Industrial Solutions and Service Company dedicated to the Energy, Mining, Industrial Construction, Aggregate, and Renewables Industries. Our headquarters are in Grantsville, MD, with offices across the country. We promote continuous learning, diverse work opportunities, and flexibility. We offer defined career paths, full benefits, and various apprenticeship/continuing education programs. We value a positive, can-do attitude and a strong sense of ambition and safety.

Responsibilities

• Use expertise in welding and metal fabrication to assemble components with precision, following blueprints, work orders, and instructions.
• Proficient in various gas metal welding techniques, including GMAW, GTAW, SAW, and SMAW.
• Ensure high-quality craftsmanship in every project by identifying, laying-out, positioning, and securing parts and assemblies according to specifications and/or prints.
• Tack-weld or weld components and assemblies, ensuring joint penetration and partial joint penetration in various welding positions.
• Work with an overhead crane and other equipment as needed.
• Read and understand drawings and blueprints, and accurately execute work orders and quality assurance (QA) standards per job requirements.
• Operate assigned equipment safely and efficiently, and perform duties indoors and occasionally outdoors.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of welding and fabrication experience in an industrial metal shop.
• Successfully complete a weld test before employment.
• Pass certifications in both GMAW and GTAW welding within 30 days.
• Advanced ability in reading and interpreting blueprints, including dimensioning, welding symbols, etc.
• Proficient in the use of manual plasma cutter and oxyfuel cutting torch.
• Knowledge of metal plate types, sizes, and shapes (steel, aluminum, stainless, galvanized, etc.).
• Experience with overhead cranes.
• Valid driver's license required.

Qualifications

• Completion of a thorough background and pre-employment drug and alcohol screening.
• Participation in random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing as requested.

Skills

• Gas metal welding techniques (GMAW, GTAW, SAW, SMAW).
• Reading and interpreting blueprints.
• Manual plasma cutter and oxyfuel cutting torch operations.
• Understanding of metal plate types and their properties.
• Overhead crane operation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health/life insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, short/long-term disability, paid time off, and holidays.
• Additional perks such as paid lodging, per diem, and transportation for out-of-town work, weekly pay with premium pay for Sundays and holidays, and bonuses and incentives for working safely.
• Employee-focused work environment, on-the-job mentoring and training, internal job postings, performance and salary reviews, and financial tools/programs.

Pay

USD $26.00/Hr. USD $38.00/Hr.

Schedule

Flexible schedule with occasional work outside normal business hours.