Metal Fabrication Welder - Day Shift 12-Hour Rotating Schedule | Only Work 14 Days a Month

Company Overview

On the heels of achieving 3X growth, Virginia Transformer is hiring to do it again!

We’re strategically building our team for the next 3X growth cycle — a phase that is both intense and incredibly rewarding. We’re highly selective about who joins us, because this journey isn’t for everyone.

If you have the drive, grit, and expertise to perform at a high level — and you want to grow your career 3X alongside the Company’s growth — we’d love to talk.

Apply below and let’s start the conversation.

Who We Are

Virginia Transformer Corp. is the largest U.S.-owned producer of power transformers in North America. We have grown for more than 50 years by delivering premium quality transformers with industry-leading lead times to utility, renewable, industrial, and mission-critical markets.

With more than 6,000 employees across multiple manufacturing sites, our operations depend heavily on disciplined warehouse management, material flow coordination, and inventory control to ensure production reliability.

Job Overview

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Metal Fabrication Welder to join our team on the day shift. In this role, you will be responsible for fabricating and welding metal components used in power transformers and related equipment. Your expertise in various welding techniques and metal fabrication processes will ensure high-quality craftsmanship that meets industry standards and safety protocols.

Metal Fabrication Welder - Day Shift: 5:00 AM - 5:30 PM 12-Hour Rotating Schedule | Only Work 14 Days Per Month

Schedule

Day Shift: 5:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Rotating Schedule:

• Week 1: Work 4 days, off 3 days
• Week 2: Work 3 days, off 4 days

Enjoy additional days off throughout the month while maintaining full-time hours.

Tasks

• Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
• Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
• Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
• Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
• Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
• Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
• Tack-weld fitted parts together.
• Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes and forklift.
• Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.

Qualifications/Requirements

• High School Diploma / GED
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Steel MIG, Stick, Flux Core or Oxy/Acetylene torch
• ANSI Certification
• Ability to read and interpret drawings / diagrams and specifications
• Ability to lift 60 lbs repetitively
• Ability to operate forklift
• Ability and willingness to work overtime, evening / off shifts, weekends, and holidays

Desired Characteristics and abilities

• Craftsmanship – The pride one puts into each and every product they produce.
• Maintain Focus – The ability to handle repetition and function under pressure or stress.
• Hand – Eye Coordination — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine to exact positions.
• Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Near Vision — The ability to see clearly up close.
• Multi-positional Welding – The ability to weld horizontally, vertically and, at times, upside down.

Tools & Technology

• Drill press or radial drill — Magnetic drill presses; Radial drills
• Hydraulic press brake — Computerized numerical control CNC press brakes; Straightening presses
• Punches or nail sets or drifts — Center punches; Drift pins; Punches
• Shears — Beverly shears; Hand shears; Uni-shears
• Welding Equipment — MIG, Stick, plasma arc welding and flux-cored
• Overhead crane and forklift

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Apply Today

Join a company where your skills are valued, your safety matters, and your work helps power critical infrastructure across North America.

Apply now to start building your future with Virginia Transformer. #IND2

Pay: From $26.52 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Benefits:

Salary : $27