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Job Description

Overview

The Welder Class B is responsible for welding castings and fabrications according to specifications while operating various production equipment. This role emphasizes safety, quality, and productivity standards.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and operate manual and semi-automatic welding equipment.
  • Select the appropriate welding rod for each job.
  • Weld various castings and fabrications according to specifications.
  • Pass required tensile and code tests.
  • Operate pantograph, cutting, sheave-making, and other production machines as needed.
  • Read and understand blueprints, welding symbols, and written instructions.
  • Use precision tools, measuring instruments, and shop mathematics.
  • Complete required production paperwork.
  • Communicate with supervisors, inspectors, and other team members.
  • Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • At least 2 years of experience as a welder.
  • Advanced welding experience in accordance with company progression requirements.
  • Ability to understand and follow welding procedures.
  • Ability to fit up parts before welding and follow required measurements.
  • Ability to use shop mathematics.
  • Ability to read blueprints, welding symbols, and written specifications.
  • Ability to safely operate welding and production equipment.
  • Ability to learn and remember machine controls, measuring tools, and assembly instructions.

Additional Information

  • Must regularly lift between 1 and 50 pounds.
  • Requires standing, walking, bending, twisting, and reaching.
  • Work is performed in a manufacturing environment with exposure to dust, smoke, and fumes.
  • Regular attendance is necessary to maintain production schedules.
  • Responsibilities may vary based on production needs.
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How this job compares in Tulsa, OK

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Tulsa, OK, whose middle half runs $24–$28/hr across 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Tulsa, OK

We're tracking 27 other active welding openings in Tulsa, OK right now, from 20 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 88 other active welding openings from 58 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tulsa, or widen the search to Oklahoma.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (5), Stand-By Personnel (5), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Oklahoma City at $27/hr and Tulsa at $26/hr. Tulsa is among them.

Similar openings near Tulsa, OK

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder B - First Shift (5:00 AM - 1:30 PM) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.