Job Description

Overview

WM is committed to creating opportunities for employees and their families, fostering a welcoming environment, and providing growth opportunities. The Senior Welder position involves performing maintenance and repairs on compactors and containers, ensuring safety and quality in the work performed.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive maintenance inspections, diagnose and repair compactors, containers, and carts.
  • Conduct moderately complex welding processes such as arc welding, gas welding, aluminum welding, brazing, plastic welding, and soft soldering.
  • Complete required paperwork utilizing fleet maintenance software for repairs and parts usage.
  • Conduct safety checks on compactors and containers.
  • Perform service calls for compactor repairs and emergency breakdowns.
  • Execute flame cutting, bending, forming, beveling, and notching of metal and plastic parts.
  • Perform standard layouts and set-ups of dimensions and tolerances.
  • Estimate time and material costs on repairs and requisition new parts.
  • Inspect the quality of outside/supplier repairs and rebuilds.
  • Develop fixtures for one-of-a-kind units and select optimum welding processes.
  • Provide assistance and guidance to lower level maintenance personnel.
  • May provide container maintenance supervisory duties in the absence of supervision.
  • Maintain a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards.
  • Perform all work in accordance with established safety procedures.

Requirements

  • 4 years of relevant work experience.
  • Valid driver's license upon hire.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • This job operates in both inside gas plant conditions and outside conditions including inclement weather.
  • This role is designated as safety sensitive and requires compliance with safety rules and protocols.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k

How this job compares in Norton, MA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts, whose middle half runs $25–$34/hr across 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% 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 Norton, MA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Norton, 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.

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