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Award Staffing

MIG Welder/Fabricator - 1st Shift

Location

Winsted, MN

Wage

$25 – $27/hr

Employment Type

Temporary

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on August 24, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The MIG Welder/Fabricator position offers an opportunity to work in Winsted, MN, with a pay rate ranging from $25.00 to $27.00 per hour. This is a Temp to Hire position on the 1st shift, requiring some flexibility in start and end times.

Responsibilities

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of MIG welding and welding fundamentals.
  • Ability to set up and operate welding equipment.
  • Metal fabrication experience is preferred.
  • Experience operating fabrication equipment.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Schedule: 1st Shift Monday-Thursday 6AM-4:30PM
  • Some mild flexibility on start and end times required.
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How this job compares in Winsted, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% 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 Winsted, MN

Winsted, MN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 114 other active welding openings from 74 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

Award Staffing currently has 3 other openings live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (8), Minnesota Jobs (7), and Lake Air Products (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 Minnesota, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Anoka at $31/hr, Minneapolis at $28/hr, and Saint Paul at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. 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.

See all welder fabricator 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. MIG Welder/Fabricator - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.