Job Description

Overview

At Allen Industries, we build the signs and architectural products that help brands stand out across the country. We're looking for a Metal Fabricator who enjoys hands-on work, values craftsmanship, and wants to be part of a team that produces exceptional products every day.

Responsibilities

  • Construct structures and sign cabinets out of aluminum, steel or other materials according to customer specifications, shop drawings and blueprints.
  • Build various sign types, including channel letters, awnings, wall signs, pylon signs, etc.
  • Use various equipment to cut, bend, turn, mill and drill to specified lengths and widths per work order.
  • Operate metal fabricating machines including shears, saws, breaks, bending machines, and punch and forming presses.
  • Weld, rivet or bolt components together, primarily aluminum.
  • Inspect parts for defects.
  • Operate machinery and equipment, including routers, welders, saws, air drills and power tools.
  • Interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Follow all OSHA and company safety procedures.

Requirements

  • Experience painting metal or aluminum preferred.
  • Ability to use or learn to use fabricating machines and hand tools.
  • Ability to read tape measures and shop drawings.
  • Comfortable working in a loud, industrial environment.
  • Ability to lift up to 70 lbs. (team lift up to 100 lbs.).
  • Forklift experience or certification is a plus.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Full-time, 40 hours/week.
  • Overtime as needed; occasional evenings/weekends.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Country Park Acres, NC

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 23% below the $28/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across North Carolina, where the middle half runs $24–$28/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Country Park Acres, NC

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Country Park Acres, NC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 129 other active welding openings from 90 employers. Browse welding jobs across North Carolina.

The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Environmental Air Systems (5), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (4), and Aerotek (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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