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Overview

The Welder 1 position involves welding parts and components for equipment and products using various welding methods. The role requires working within a customer-focused team to meet tight deadlines and solve mechanical problems while ensuring quality workmanship.

Responsibilities

  • Select the appropriate welding method, such as TIG, MIG, MAG or stick.
  • Plan and lay out work from blueprints and manufacturers’ specification sheets, using shop math and measuring instruments.
  • Set up and operate a conventional lathe for the preparation of welded parts.
  • Properly identify materials and prepare components.
  • Conduct assembly activities during production.
  • Perform welding repairs on raw and finished parts.
  • Execute welding installations based on technical drawings.
  • Complete all welding work assigned according to operation instruction.
  • Verify the quality of finished work, demonstrating an in-depth understanding of specifications and workmanship.
  • Meet production goals relating to efficiency, schedules, and scrap.
  • Troubleshoot and correct process and equipment problems.
  • Collaborate with machinists and assemblers on the team to discuss and solve problems relating to repairs and equipment.
  • Record accurate, timely data on computer-based systems or in manual logs.
  • Apply an understanding of the process flow of documents, materials, and parts through the repair or manufacturing process.
  • Maintain a safe workplace by wearing relevant protective equipment according to safety protection requirements.
  • Clean and maintain machines and tools and keep an organized workspace.
  • Carry out relevant heat treatment operations according to heat treatment operation instruction or process documents.
  • Demonstrate welding experience in a manufacturing or repair environment.
  • Define, evaluate, and discuss quality workmanship related to welding.
  • Exhibit a customer-service mindset for on-time delivery and quality work.
  • Stand for long periods, perform repetitive arm motions, and lift frequently, with occasional lifting up to 50 pounds.
  • Demonstrate a reliable attendance record and the ability to work overtime and weekends as required on short notice.
  • Possess a welder certificate.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Welding experience in mechanical manufacturing or valve industry.
  • PT and MT related certificates are preferred.
  • Post weld heat treatment experience.
  • Good technical understanding.
  • SAP knowledge.
  • Ability to work independently, flexibly, and accurately.
  • Good team spirit and initiative.
  • Available full time.
  • HS Diploma / GED and/or 0-2 years relevant experience.
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How this job compares in Hastings, NE

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 46% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska — toward the top of a $23–$28/hr middle band drawn from 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 Hastings, NE

Hastings, NE is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 26 other active welding openings from 22 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Nebraska.

The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Standard Iron (2), Valmont Industries (2), and Klute Careers (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, 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. 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.

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