Welder
Location
Yankton, SD
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 7, 2026
Location
Yankton, SD
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 7, 2026
Manitou Group is seeking a Welder to safely perform welding tasks on heavy and large mechanical products. The company values its employees and promotes a diverse and agile work environment across multiple global locations.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across South Dakota, whose middle half runs $23–$28/hr across 30 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 37% 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.
Yankton, SD is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 42 other active welding openings from 31 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across South Dakota.
MANITOU Group currently has 1 other opening live in South Dakota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Vermeer Corporation (3), Maguire (3), and Gpac (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.