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Job Description

Overview

We are searching for an experienced Welder at our Woodbury, Minnesota facility. This role is perfect for a candidate who just received their welding certification or has less than 1-2 years of experience and is looking to be part of an amazing team!

Responsibilities

  • Perform ordinary and repetitive hand welding operations.
  • All MIG welding.
  • Care required in clamping parts in relative position to avoid distortion.
  • Operate welding equipment; regulate current and voltage or gas and feed rate for proper fusion of metals.
  • Heavy lifting may be required.

Requirements

  • Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Must be able to plan and layout welding sequence, referring to drawings, blueprints, or specifications.
  • May layout and mark weld points on parts or assemblies using a tape measure, square, scribe, or templates.
  • Must be proficient at reading work orders.
  • A concern for quality control is a requirement.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • The pay range for this position is $20 - $23/hour.
  • Work schedule is Monday - Friday (7am-3:30pm).
  • Paid weekly.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Woodbury, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, where the middle half runs $23–$30/hr across 89 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 10% 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 Woodbury, MN

Woodbury, MN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 114 other active welding openings from 73 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (8), Minnesota Jobs (7), and Lake Air Products (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 Minnesota, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Anoka at $31/hr, Minneapolis at $28/hr, and Saint Paul at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.