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Job Description

Overview

The Welder/Saw Operator sets up and operates saws to cut materials to specified lengths or shapes, ensuring adherence to product specifications and maintaining equipment. This role involves reading blueprints, securing workpieces, and performing inspections.

Responsibilities

  • Reads blueprints and job orders for product specifications.
  • Positions and secures workpieces in saw vises.
  • Maintains direct flow of coolant against saw blade and workpiece.
  • Observes machine operation and verifies conformance of machined workpieces.
  • Sets up and operates saw.
  • Issues raw materials to jobs and maintains accurate inventory.
  • Inspects parts using precision measuring equipment and documents data.
  • Performs periodic preventative maintenance on assigned machines.
  • Loads, unloads, and moves materials within the CNC Department as needed.
  • Cleans and organizes work area.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Birthday Pay and 6 paid Holidays.
  • 2 weeks paid Parental Leave.
  • 80 hours of vacation in your first 6 months.
  • Company Events and summer food trucks.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Fall River, MA

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts, where the middle half runs $26–$34/hr across 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% 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 Fall River, MA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Fall River, MA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 33 other active welding openings from 29 employers. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.

The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. (3), GE Aerospace (2), and Welding Shop in Boston, MA (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Fall River, MA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder/Saw Operator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.