Job Description

Overview

The Manual Welder position involves setting up and operating manual welding machines, ensuring quality and cleanliness in the work area, and performing various welding tasks according to customer specifications. Candidates should have the ability to read blueprints and welding instructions, along with relevant experience or education.

Responsibilities

  • Sets up manual weld machine or downloads program per set up sheet instructions.
  • Verifies proper filler, tooling, and gas flow is prepared in the robot or staged in manual area per set up instructions.
  • Reviews weld requirements from weld prints (size, spacing, location, etc.).
  • Loads and locates parts into tooling per print and work instructions.
  • Welds parts per customer provided prints.
  • Removes weld spatter and scale from finished parts.
  • Performs quality checks per set up sheet.
  • Maintains welding equipment and sees that work area is orderly and clean.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Able to read and understand basic blueprints and weld instructions.
  • One year certificate from college or technical school; or one year related experience and/or training.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Some physical demand; often lifts light to heavy-weight material.
  • Frequent lifting/moving average weight (up to 50 lbs/11-27 kgs) material.
  • Ability to perform occasional to frequent pushing, pulling, bending, kneeling, twisting, crawling and/or reaching over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Ability to operate motorized vehicles over a full work shift (8-12 hours).
  • Ability to stand and/or walk constantly over a full work shift on concrete (8-12 hours).
  • May be exposed to noise levels for which hearing protection is required to be worn over a full work shift (8-12 hours).

How this job compares in Mayville, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin — toward the top of a $22–$30/hr middle band drawn from 115 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Mayville, WI

Mayville, WI currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 171 other active welding openings from 117 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Mayville, or widen the search to Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (10), JARP Industries Inc (9), and SEEK Careers/Staffing (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Oshkosh at $30/hr, Waukesha at $26/hr, and Hartford at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Manual Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.