Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a talented Welder III to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Frankfort, KY. This role involves performing skilled activities that support manufacturing business needs while ensuring safety and quality craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure safety by stopping work and reporting any major injury hazards immediately.
  • Report any work-related injury, illness, incident, or hazard to ensure compliance with HSE standards.
  • Recognize how your work impacts the environment and work to minimize negative effects.
  • Apply high standards of workmanship and craftsmanship to ensure tasks are performed to the highest quality.
  • Provide feedback into the Preventive Maintenance system and perform quality inspections.
  • Participate in continuous improvement activities and solve problems to enhance processes.
  • Communicate effectively with your team and support teams to foster a collaborative work environment.
  • Engage in HSE training and complete personal development to stay updated with business requirements.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience.
  • At least 1 year of welding experience.
  • Must be able to pass Cummins welding certification.
  • Perform bracket welding on axles and assemble Meritor tire inflation system to axles.
  • Inspect completed welds to determine structural soundness.
  • Read and interpret bill of material, work instructions, and specifications to current build of axles.
  • Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training, or on-the-job experience.

How this job compares in Frankfort, KY

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky, where the middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 40 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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 Frankfort, KY

Frankfort, KY is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 53 other active welding openings from 41 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Kentucky.

The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are BAE Systems (4), SU Solutions (3), and Snelling (3). 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. Welder III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.