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Overview

This position for TIG Welders in Mentor, OH involves working in the welding department with responsibilities that include welding components in various positions and ensuring quality welds on different materials. The job offers both 1st and 2nd shifts with pay based on experience.

Responsibilities

  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure for conformance with specifications.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Weld using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux according to specifications.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals.
  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods.
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid material distortion.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment using various welding processes.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, and specifications to plan operations.
  • Mark or tag material with proper job numbers and identifying marks.
  • Maintain organized, clean work area.
  • Assist with other TIG Welders when needed.

Requirements

  • Possess a minimum of 2 years’ experience in welding in a manufacturing environment.
  • Has 2 years or more experience with welding Aluminum Sheet Metal.
  • Must have considerable knowledge of principles and practices of TIG Welding.
  • Effective oral and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • None specified.

Additional Information

  • 1st & 2nd Shifts available.
  • Pay based upon experience $22.00/HR-$27.00/HR.
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How this job compares in Mentor, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for TIG welder jobs across Ohio, whose middle half runs $25–$29/hr across 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% 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 Mentor, OH

Mentor, OH currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 236 other active welding openings from 176 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Mentor, or widen the search to Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (10), Staffmark (5), and Kadant Black Clawson LLC (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 Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $33/hr, Aurora at $32/hr, and Cleveland at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds. 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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