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Overview

The Skilled Welder I at RedGuard is responsible for the fabrication, welding, and installation of steel components for blast-resistant modular buildings. This role requires proficiency in various welding techniques and adherence to AWS compliance standards to ensure quality and timely delivery of products.

Responsibilities

  • Welds components in flat, vertical and overhead positions.
  • Assists daily fit up and lay out duties.
  • Fabricates pieces, ensuring conformance with product specifications and blueprints.
  • Minimizes scrap and rework and works to continually improve quality level.
  • Maintains schedule and budgets for the task at hand and overall project.
  • Cross-trains and uses additional trade skills in multiple stages of the manufacturing process as assigned.
  • Follows established safety and security rules and regulations and maintains a safe and clean work area and environment.

Requirements

  • Prior experience with structural steel welding.
  • Proficient in industry-standard welding techniques.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and product specifications accurately.
  • Solid basic math skills, including the ability to read a tape measure.
  • Skilled in using common hand and power tools, including grinders, squares, come-alongs, torches, plasma cutters, and other job-specific tools.
  • Basic computer proficiency.
  • Must pass company-required 3G/4G welding certifications within three working weeks of employment, with no more than three attempts.
  • Associates degree or technical certificate in welding is preferred.
  • 2+ years in fitting/welding trades in structural steel construction is preferred.
  • 2+ years of Short Arc and Spray Arc MIG experience is preferred.
  • 2+ years of fabrication experience is preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Heavy work requiring exertion of up to 100 pounds of force occasionally.
  • Exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as hot and cold climates, dusty, and noisy areas.
  • This position has been classified as safety-sensitive.

Benefits

PTO
Paid Holidays
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Wichita, KS

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Kansas, where the middle half runs $21–$30/hr across 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% 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 Wichita, KS

Wichita, KS currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Kansas as a whole we're tracking 46 other active welding openings from 30 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Wichita, or widen the search to Kansas.

The most active employers in Kansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Webco Manufacturing (7), Aerotek (5), and Energy Jobline ZR (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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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