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B21A Welding Supervisor

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Overview

The Welding Supervisor manages the processes and procedures for structural welding on construction projects. This supervisor oversees welding safety, quality assurance procedures, welder qualifications, and certification requirements.

Core Skills

  • Structural welding quality assurance procedures
  • Welder qualification and certification oversight
  • Construction welding safety process oversight

Civilian Career Paths

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Welding Production Supervisor

Managing structural welding procedures, safety, quality assurance, and welder qualifications transfers directly to oversight of welding production work.

How to prepare: Build a work sample showing how you would apply welding safety and quality controls to a civilian shop's production schedule.

What the civilian work involves
  • Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
  • Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
  • Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.

Welding Quality Inspector

Oversight of structural welding quality assurance procedures provides a foundation for inspecting welded work against specifications.

How to prepare: Complete practical training in weld inspection and dimensional measurement, including documenting acceptance or rejection against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC B21A

    [1] NEC entry "B21A - Welding Supervisor"; cached text line 2414; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Structural welding quality assurance procedures, Welder qualification and certification oversight, Construction welding safety process oversight, Welding Production Supervisor (O*NET 51-1011.00), Welding Quality Inspector (O*NET 51-9061.00)

  2. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Welding Production Supervisor (O*NET 51-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Welding Quality Inspector (O*NET 51-9061.00)

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