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Overview

The Welder position at WM involves fabricating and repairing compactors, containers, and carts under general supervision. The role offers a stable work environment with opportunities for growth and a comprehensive benefits package.

Responsibilities

  • Performs minor repairs and applies basic welding processes.
  • Repairs compactors, containers and carts.
  • Performs preventive maintenance inspections, diagnostic and repair of electrical and hydraulic systems on compactors.
  • Qualified in welding processes such as arc welding, gas welding, aluminum welding, brazing, and soft soldering on various materials.
  • Conducts safety checks on compactors and containers.
  • Completes required paperwork utilizing fleet maintenance software.
  • Assists senior welders in project work.
  • Performs service calls for compactor repair.
  • Performs related work such as flame cutting, bending, forming, beveling, and notching of metal and plastic parts.
  • Performs all work within Standard Repair Times (SRTs).
  • Works from prints, drawings and verbal instructions.
  • Performs standard layouts and set-ups of dimensions and tolerances.
  • Utilizes standard shop hand tools, measuring devices and equipment.
  • Maintains a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.

Requirements

  • 2 years of previous experience.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Work Shift/Days: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday, some overtime available.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Springdale, AR

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas, whose middle half runs $20–$32/hr across 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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 Springdale, AR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Springdale, AR, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 26 other active welding openings from 23 employers. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.

The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are PDS Tech Commercial (2), XPO (2), and Veterans Health Administration (2). 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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 8a-4:30p Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.