# Welder, Fabricator, and Painter – Military & Commercial Generator Systems

**Company**: GDIT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $59,500 - $80,500
**Category**: Skilled Trades
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Generator Shop Welder, Fabricator, and Painter is responsible for performing welding, metal fabrication, and painting operations on military and commercial generator systems.

Responsibilities:

- Performs MIG, TIG, and Stick welding on generator housings, frames, and structural components.

- Fabricates custom metal panels, access covers, and reinforcements from raw stock.

- Reads and interprets drawings, blueprints, technical manuals, and fabrication schematics.

- Conducts structural repair including crack removal, reinforcement, and metal surface restoration.

- Prepares surfaces for coating using sanding, grinding, chemical cleaning, or abrasive blasting.

- Applies primers, corrosion inhibitors, and CARC coatings to generator components.

- Ensures paint application meets thickness, curing, environmental, and quality standards.

- Supports generator modifications through custom-fabricated brackets and mounting points.

- Adheres to OSHA, EPA, Army, and military welding/fabrication/paint standards.

- Documents all work performed following quality assurance and maintenance procedures.

Tools and Test Equipment:

- Welding systems: MIG, TIG, Stick welders with appropriate torches and shielding gas equipment.

- Metal cutting tools: plasma cutter, oxy-acetylene torch, grinders, cutoff wheels, and shears.

- Fabrication tools: drill press, metal brake, rollers, clamps, vises, hammers, and layout tools.

- Surface prep equipment: abrasive blasting systems, sanders, wire wheels, needle scalers.

- Paint equipment: HVLP sprayers, pressure-pot sprayers, CARC-compliant spray guns.

- Measurement tools: calipers, weld gauges, squares, angle finders, and measuring tapes.

- Inspection tools: straightedges, mirrors, flashlights, profile gauges, and weld inspection tools.

- PPE: welding hood, gloves, leathers, respirators, safety glasses, face shields, hearing protection.

Requirements:

- HS Diploma or equivalent; welding certifications preferred.

- 3+ years of welding, fabrication, or industrial painting experience.

- Skilled in MIG, TIG, and Stick welding on carbon steel and aluminum.

- Experience fabricating metal components and structures from raw stock.

- Knowledge of CARC coating systems and industrial painting standards.

- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings, and technical manuals.

- Strong safety awareness including PPE, ventilation, and hazardous material requirements.

- Ability to work independently in field or shop environments.

- Active U.S. Secret clearance; ability to deploy worldwide as required.

- Able to stand and sit for extended periods.

- Able to lift 40 pounds.

- Valid US drivers License required.

- Must attend and pass all medical requirements as part of the CRC deployment center process.

Benefits:

- Medical plan options

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Paid time off plans

- Short and long-term disability benefits

- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- MIG welding
- TIG welding
- Stick welding
- metal fabrication
- industrial painting
- blueprint reading
- CARC coating systems

### Nice to have
- welding certifications
- AWS D1.1 / D1.2 or equivalent welding certification
- CARC Paint Certification

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