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PF Holdings

Welder

Location

Fruita, CO

Wage

$57,679/yr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

Stick WeldingFlux-Core Welding
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Posted on August 18, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The Welder position involves using hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to join metal components and fill seams in fabricated metal products. The role requires adherence to safety practices and the ability to operate various welding equipment and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts for welding.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment and notify supervisors.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment using various welding processes.
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping.
  • Examine work pieces for defects and measure for conformance with specifications.
  • Set up and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent preferred, but not required.
  • Minimum one (1) year work related skill, knowledge, and hands-on experience or vocational training preferred, but not required.
  • Must stay in position for at least two (2) years depending on prior experience before promoting to Welder II.
  • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
  • Must work independently and as a member of a team.
  • Able to read, speak and write English.
  • Strong physical and mental health to maintain demanding workload.
  • Able to work under stressful conditions.

Additional Information

  • Position will consistently dictate 40 - 60 hours per week with frequent overtime demands.
  • Position may require some six (6) day weeks when workload demands.
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How this job compares in Fruita, CO

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Colorado, whose middle half runs $24–$33/hr across 72 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% 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 Fruita, CO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Fruita, CO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 59 employers. Browse welding jobs across Colorado.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (9), Honeywell Technologies (4), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (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 Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arvada at $30/hr, Denver at $28/hr, and Colorado Springs at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick and Flux-Core work. 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. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.