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Overview

Komatsu is seeking a Welder for the 2nd shift in Peoria, Illinois. The role involves performing various welding techniques to fabricate chassis for electric mining trucks while ensuring quality and safety in fabrication processes.

Responsibilities

  • Perform all phases of chassis fabrication for mining trucks.
  • Fabricate sub-components and setup frames for welding.
  • Perform cleanup of welding passes.
  • Correct welding flaws identified by inspections.
  • Use cranes to move plate steel and components for welding setup.
  • Utilize information systems as necessary for job duties.
  • Work closely with the Engineering Department.
  • Read and interpret engineering prints and procedures with minimal supervision.
  • Ensure quality and safety of own work using appropriate protective equipment.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of welding experience.
  • Proficiency in GMAW, GMAW-P, and Sub Arc Welding.
  • Ability to weld in all positions and run multiple pass welds.
  • Skill to read and interpret weld drawings and symbols.
  • Ability to safely use carbon arc gouging, acetylene torch, grinders, and general manufacturing tools.
  • General math skills and ability to read a tape measure.
  • Must pass appropriate welding test.
  • Complete a physical commensurate with DOL Medium duty work requirements, including drug testing.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Employee learning and development programs

Additional Information

  • Onsite position
  • Location: Peoria, Illinois, USA, 61639

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
Disability benefits
Life insurance
Employee learning and development programs
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How this job compares in Peoria, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 12% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $24–$38/hr middle band drawn from 208 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 65% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Peoria, IL

Peoria, IL currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 266 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Peoria, or widen the search to Illinois.

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

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (18), Gerber Collision & Glass (8), and Aerotek (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Itasca at $56/hr, Chicago at $36/hr, and Peoria at $31/hr. Peoria is among them.

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.

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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 2nd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.