Robotic Welding Engineer (MIG/MAG)

Location: Onsite in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Company

hirify.global manufactures construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment for customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop, program, and optimize robotic MIG/MAG welding systems for mild steel heavy fabrication.
• Troubleshoot weld programming, controls, fixturing, fit-up, consumables, equipment condition, and process variation.
• Maintain compliance with WPS requirements, quality standards, process controls, and internal production requirements.
• Support weld technicians, maintenance activities, preventive maintenance scheduling, equipment reliability, and robotic weld cell uptime.
• Support new product introductions, engineering and tooling changes, process launches, and manufacturability reviews.
• Analyze downtime, weld defects, rework, and process performance data to recommend automation, tooling, and capital improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in welding, manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, or a related technical field, or equivalent technical education and experience.
• Strong knowledge of MIG/MAG welding for mild steel, including parameters, consumables, shielding gas, defects, corrective actions, and weld system controls.
• Robotics and weld-control programming knowledge for heavy fabrication; experience with Fanuc, ABB, Yaskawa/Motoman, Panasonic, hirify.global, or similar platforms is relevant.
• Knowledge of heavy fabrication equipment, fixtures, tooling, weld symbols, WPS requirements, engineering drawings, and manufacturing documentation.
• Experience with technician support, maintenance troubleshooting, production downtime response, and vendor communication.
• Microsoft Office skills are required; CAD, offline robot programming, simulation software, SAP, and maintenance systems are helpful.

Nice to have

• Experience in heavy equipment, structural fabrication, or large mild steel weldment manufacturing.
• Knowledge of AWS D1.1 or similar welding codes, weld procedure development, and weld inspection.
• Experience with robotic weld-cell launches, automation projects, fixture design reviews, or capital equipment installation.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular shop-floor presence with direct collaboration across production, maintenance, quality, safety, engineering, and welding teams.
• Occasional support outside normal business hours may be required for production needs, equipment downtime, launches, audits, or urgent quality issues.
• Work in a diverse and technically challenging heavy-equipment manufacturing environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to safety, quality, delivery, cost reduction, reliability, and sustainable manufacturing improvements.