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Overview

Join the Skeeter team as a Metal Fabricator and help build fun by maintaining the production of steel trailers. This position involves constructing and fabricating steel boat trailers while ensuring quality and adherence to engineering specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Construct and fabricate steel boat trailers
  • Ensure parts are correct to build product
  • Build jigs and fixtures of all sizes and shapes required in production operation
  • Build all steel trailers per engineering Blue Prints and Drawings
  • Assist R&D with welding and fabricating tasks
  • Maintain a clean work area
  • Perform any other duties assigned

Requirements

  • Welding Certification required
  • Be able to operate metal working equipment
  • Experience with Mig Welder
  • Experience with Stick Welder
  • Experience with Cutting Torch
  • Experience with Metal Cutting Saws
  • Experience with Bending and Fabricating Equipment
  • Experience with Plasma Cutter
  • Experience with Electric Hoists
  • Ability to fabricate jigs, trailers and small parts for trailers
  • Ability to read tape measure and level
  • Ability to work flexible hours if needed
  • Ability to lift 75+/- lbs.
  • Ability to work in heat
  • Manual dexterity
  • Good quality habits
  • Good attendance habits
  • Ability to follow instructions accurately
  • Ability to complete work in a timely manner
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How this job compares in Kilgore, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Texas currently run a median of $22/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$28/hr across 37 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Kilgore, TX

Kilgore, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 518 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), Zachry Group (20), and Austin Industries (20). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication 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.

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