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Job Description

Overview

This position is for a TIG Welder specializing in stainless steel and aluminum, focusing on thin-gauge materials. The role involves various welding techniques and requires proficiency in operating welding equipment safely and effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure for conformance with specifications.
  • Set up and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Weld using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts for welding.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux according to specifications.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs to complete circuits.
  • Connect and turn regulator valves to adjust gas flow and pressure.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods based on metallurgy and geometry.
  • Monitor fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid material distortion.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment for metal fusion.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, and specifications for planning.
  • Mark or tag material with job numbers and identifying marks as required.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in TIG welding.
  • Experience with welding thin-gauge materials.
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and blueprints.
  • Knowledge of metallurgy and welding techniques.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • 1st shift: 6am to 2:30pm.
  • Starting pay is $25 to $27 per hour.
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How this job compares in Mentor, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio, whose middle half runs $21–$30/hr across 141 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 57% 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 Mentor, OH

Mentor, OH currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 236 other active welding openings from 176 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Mentor, or widen the search to Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (10), Staffmark (5), and Kadant Black Clawson LLC (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 Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $33/hr, Aurora at $32/hr, and Cleveland at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

See all stainless steel welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. TIG Welder Stainless Steel and Aluminum figures were last recalculated when this page was built.