Shop Pipe Welder

The Shop Pipe Welder is a highly skilled member of our fabrication team, responsible for producing precise, high-quality welds and assemblies that meet the strictest industry and customer standards. From interpreting blueprints and weld symbols to setting up fixtures and performing X‑ray quality welds, this role requires technical expertise, craftsmanship, and attention to detail at every stage of production.

In this position, you’ll work with advanced equipment—including overhead cranes, weld machines, and precision measuring tools—while collaborating with fabricators, foremen, and superintendents to keep projects on schedule. Your ability to fit, weld, and assemble process piping, hydronics, and pressure vessels to ASME and B31 codes ensures every product is built to last and delivered with excellence.

Shop Fitter Welders are valued for their hands‑on expertise, reliability, and commitment to safety. Their work lays the foundation for field success, ensuring every system fabricated in the shop is accurate, durable, and ready for installation.

Self. Made. at RK

At RK, Self. Made. isn’t a tagline, it’s how work gets done. People here build more than projects; they build capability, confidence, and careers they can be proud of. With so much work designed and fabricated in‑house, ideas move quickly from concept to shop floor to job site. Teams collaborate across disciplines, solve real‑world challenges, and grow through hands‑on work that truly matters.

RK Industries is a second-generation family‑owned company led by brothers Rick and Jon Kinning. With seven specialized business units working together, we deliver construction, fabrication, manufacturing, and building services with a focus on safety, quality, and craftsmanship.

People join RK for the craftsmanship, complexity, and the ability to make a real impact. Our in‑house capabilities mean employees see their ideas become real solutions, creating meaningful collaboration and clear visibility into how work gets built. Growth happens through challenging projects, mentorship from experienced builders, and opportunities that stretch your skill set.

With RK University, accredited apprenticeships, competitive benefits, and deep community investment, RK offers the stability of a family‑owned company with the opportunity and momentum of an industry leader.

Perform trade‑specific quality work consistent with CAD/FAB and Energy procedures to ensure product meets or exceeds customer expectations.

• Operate trade specific machinery and trade specific tools (i.e., calipers, weld gauges, tape measures, and other welding hand tools).
• Read, interpret and follow basic blueprints, diagrams, engineering drawings, specifications, weld symbols, bills of materials, and other written instructions or procedures to accurately create equipment and products.
• Identify product defects and effectively communicate defects to project foreman.
• Follow P&IDs for assembly tracks on projects.
• Create specific weldment set‑ups and fixturing to meet geometric requirements.
• Work with overhead cranes, jib cranes, and forklifts.
• Work closely with other fabricators, welders and laborers to improve their skills and provide training.
• Maintain weld machines using preventative maintenance methods.
• Continually evaluate weld machine performance and technology to improve cycle times.
• Assist shop foreman or superintendent with production tracking and to insure production goals are met.
• Communicate status of orders to the foreman or shop superintendent.
• Prioritize workflow through effective communication with management staff.
• Perform prioritized workflow assignments as directed by foreman or shop superintendent.
• Maintain welder certification per customer and company procedure specifications.
• Perform X‑Ray quality welds on process piping, hydronics, and pressure vessels.
• Using shop blueprints, fit up X‑ray quality weld joints.
• ASME pressure vessel, piping, welding to B31.1, 31.3, 31.9 criteria.
• Maintain a clean and safe work area.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 5 years of experience, 3 years welding experience minimum preferred.
• Familiarity with welding…