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Overview

The Welder I - MIG position involves welding and joining stainless and aluminum materials with precision, while ensuring quality control and safety standards are met. The role requires competence in using welding equipment and a strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints and drawings and take or read measurements to play layout and procedures.
  • Determine the appropriate welding equipment or method based on requirements.
  • Set up components for welding according to specifications.
  • Weld components together to fabricate products according to layouts, blueprints, or work orders, using various welding equipment.
  • Operate angle grinders to prepare the parts that must be welded.
  • Align components using tape measure and clamp pieces together.
  • Weld components in various positions (vertical, horizontal, and overhead).
  • Maintain equipment in a condition that does not compromise safety.

Requirements

  • Competent in using potentially dangerous equipment following all safety precautions.
  • Knowledge of different kinds of metal and their properties.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in written and spoken form.
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship skills.
  • Good decision making and analytical problem solving abilities.
  • Strong multi-tasking capabilities and organizational skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced high-pressure environment.

Benefits

  • Tuition reimbursement
  • PTO
  • Paid holidays
  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Lift up to 50lbs.
  • Sit or stand for up to 95 percent of work hours.
  • Periodic visits to the manufacturing facility with seasonal hot and cold temperatures, dust, and some chemical fume exposure.

Benefits

Tuition reimbursement
PTO
Paid holidays
Health Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Redmond, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Oregon, where the middle half runs $26–$35/hr across 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Redmond, OR

Redmond, OR currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 44 other active welding openings from 24 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Redmond, or widen the search to Oregon.

AAON, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Oregon, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (11), Skyline Sheet Metal, Inc (4), and AAON (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder I - MIG - A-Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.