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Overview

The Repair Welder - Cradles position at Magna involves producing high-quality welded components while ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. Magna is committed to investing in its employees and offers a dynamic environment for career development.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding repairs and complete existing welds using approved welding techniques.
  • Visually inspect welds for fusion, porosity, location, size, burn-through, notching, and undercut.
  • Maintain product quality to ensure finished parts meet or exceed Kamtek standards.
  • Perform required quality checks using QID, QIF, FO/LO processes, and quality alerts.
  • Accurately document production and inventory data using CMS systems.
  • Communicate effectively with team members and support departments across all shifts.
  • Participate in team, department, and plant-wide meetings as required.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Previous manufacturing or fabrication experience preferred.
  • Prior welding experience preferred.
  • Ability to use MIG welding equipment, basic hand tools, computer systems, and scanners.
  • Knowledge of robot fundamentals and workstation panel basics.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Birmingham, AL

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama, where the middle half runs $21–$33/hr across 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Birmingham, AL

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Birmingham, AL right now, from 11 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 105 other active welding openings from 78 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Birmingham, or widen the search to Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are ORION (4), Blue Origin (3), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Alabama, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Mobile at $48/hr, Birmingham at $25/hr, and Huntsville at $24/hr. Birmingham is among them.

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.

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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. Repair Welder - Cradles figures were last recalculated when this page was built.