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Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis

Repairs turbines and generators for power producers

TIG Welder

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$20 - $27/hr
Junior, Mid
Houston, TX, USA
In Person
Manufacturing & Production OperationsWelding & Metal Fabrication

About the job

Requirements
  • A high school diploma, GED, apprenticeship classes, or trade school training is required.
  • Welding vocational school training or 3–5 years of TIG welding experience may be substituted for a certificate.
  • Availability to work days, nights, weekends, holidays, and mandatory overtime as required.
  • Basic knowledge of TIG welding procedures, practices, and techniques to weld or fuse metals together.
  • Familiarity with power-generation turbine equipment, including gas turbines.
  • Familiarity with nondestructive examination techniques such as dye penetrant testing.
  • Ability to use hand and power tools associated with TIG welding, such as a chipping hammer, grinder, and sander.
  • Ability to use standard precision measuring instruments and hand tools, such as a tape measure, level, square, file, or rasp.
  • Ability to read, understand, and follow company repair procedures and directions.
  • Ability to work from blueprints, sketches, procedures, and other specifications.
  • Ability to weld in horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions.
  • Customer service experience explaining and discussing needed repairs and determining scheduling time frames.
  • Ability to lead other diaphragm welders and supervise work performed at the customer site.
  • Knowledge of arithmetic.
  • Good visual and auditory acuity.
  • Oral and written communication skills.
Responsibilities
  • Fabricate and weld gas turbine components, sheet metal, and casting turbine engine components.
  • Weld or repair GE-type buckets, nozzles, shrouds, and combustion components.
  • Set up and lay out jobs using blueprints, diagrams, routers, and fixtures, and follow proper TIG welding procedures.
  • Inspect, maintain, and log preventive maintenance on welding equipment.
  • Set up associated machines and equipment according to work instructions, including trimming, sizing, and forming.
  • Visually inspect welds using fillet weld gauges, calipers, micrometers, height gauges, and final weld fixtures.
  • Inspect welds for size, face and root reinforcement, cracks, inclusions, and porosity.
  • Follow customer drawings and specifications to maintain quality standards.
  • Comply with internal manufacturing safety standards, shop housekeeping practices, and company teamwork expectations.
  • Comply with internal quality-system, safety, and regulatory requirements.
  • Push, pull, and lift 25 pounds and stand for extended periods.
  • Perform other related duties assigned by management.

About the company

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Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis

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Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis, known as MD&A, services gas, steam and industrial turbines and generators for power producers worldwide. Its engineers and field teams handle equipment inspections, outage planning, technical direction, troubleshooting, alignment and performance analysis. The company combines work at customer plants with repair facilities that refurbish turbine and generator components, machine precision parts and support equipment overhauls. It also supplies replacement components, controls services and engineered upgrades as an alternative source for equipment maintenance and life extension. Founded in 1982, MD&A is headquartered in Latham, New York.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Latham, NY

Founded

1982

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What believers are saying

  • Structured mentoring: engineer trainees spend approximately two years learning turbine inspections with senior field engineers.
  • Employer-paid protection: careers benefits include company-paid disability and life insurance.
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  • Outage-season workload: the Euclid machining shop advertises a full schedule of 50 hours or more.
  • Extensive travel: the engineer training program requires US travel and occasional short overseas assignments.
  • Broad onsite responsibility: gas turbine field engineers oversee site safety, labor and project financials.

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  • Patented seal design: Guardian packing rings maintain radial sealing through shutdown, startup and operating conditions.
  • Reduced reassembly: Topless Alignment measures shell deflections and bore positions without tops-on turbine measurements.
  • Narrow-gap inspection: the Air Gap-Bot enters 0.9-inch generator gaps and inspects without removing the field.

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