Alaska Village Electric is looking for a Welder. If you are mission driven, self-motivated, responsible, creative, a problem solver, and want some freedom in setting your hours and pace while out in the field then you could be a great addition to our Operations Department. While traveling with AVEC, you will get to enjoy world class fishing and hunting during the hours that you aren't working and will get to see parts of Alaska that most Alaskans don't even get to see.

The Welder position is full time and paid based on experience within an established wage range of $27.94 to $49.28 per hour.

AVEC is a member-driven electric generation and distribution cooperative serving 58 communities throughout rural Alaska with its headquarters in Anchorage, AK. Alaska Village Electric Cooperative is unlike any other utility in the world, come for the adventure, stay for the challenge and let us wow you with our benefits.

Benefits:

• Medical and RX (2 plans available)
• Dental
• Vision
• HSA or FSA
• Basic Life Insurance, AD&D, Spouse Life paid for by AVEC
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• 401K Plan with Employer Match
• Defined Benefit Plan (Employer paid pension)
• Leave starting at 21 days per year
• 8 paid Holidays
• 2 Floating Holidays & 1 Birthday Holiday
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Dependent Care FSA

About the role:

As a Welder you will organize, assist, direct and perform construction work on-site required to serve member villages with electrical energy through a diesel generation and distribution system. You will perform major overhauls and repairs, replacement of parts, assemblies and preventative maintenance, and fabricating or improvising temporary replacements. Welders may instruct Power Plant Operators during the operations and maintenance period in use of equipment, methods and safe practices involved in construction, correct operational problems and perform maintenance and repair on the distribution system and power plants. As part of the traveling field staff, you are the ones that our members see and you will be expected to maintain good relations with the member-owners and village councils and build their understanding and confidence in AVEC's value, mission and goals.

Work environment:

• Consistently long hours on both a daily and weekly basis (qualifies for overtime)
• Travel up to 75% of the time to remote Alaska villages located in extreme climatic conditions
• Intermittent subsistence lifestyle in remote villages
• Rotating schedule with minimum of 21 days out in the field

Next Steps:

If you think you have what it takes to be a Welder for AVEC, the next step is to complete our online application. The application is pretty easy and mobile friendly, it simply asks for your resume and to answer some questions to help us get to know you and your experience better. We should warn you though, if you are selected to move further in our hiring process, you will be asked to complete a second stage of the application (this is the fun part where you are asked to provide the more detailed work and education history - yes we know the struggle). This is good news though because it will most likely earn you a chance to speak with our very experienced Operations Manager.

Contact Alaska Village Electric Cooperative at hr@avec.org for more information or a full job description.

AVEC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.