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Overview

The Structural Steel Fabricator/Layout position involves reading and interpreting blueprints, accurately laying out, cutting, fitting, and welding structural steel components, while ensuring a clean and safe work environment. The role requires collaboration with a team to meet project deadlines and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret blueprints and fabrication drawings.
  • Accurately layout, cut, fit, and weld structural steel components.
  • Use appropriate tools and equipment safely and efficiently.
  • Work closely with the team to meet project deadlines and quality standards.
  • Help maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in structural steel fabrication and layout.
  • Ability to read and interpret detailed shop drawings.
  • Strong understanding of welding techniques and fabrication tools.
  • Team player with a positive attitude and strong work ethic.
  • Dependable, detail-oriented, and self-motivated.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on experience.
  • Health Insurance.
  • 401k.
  • PTO.

Additional Information

  • Applicants are encouraged to stop in the office to fill out an application.
  • Drug free workplace.
  • Bring a hood and necessary equipment as same day weld tests might be given.
  • Resumes may also be returned via email response through Craigslist.
  • Location: 9380 Ulmerton Road, Largo, FL 33771.

Benefits

Competitive pay based on experience.
Health Insurance.
401k.
PTO.
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How this job compares in Largo, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $22–$30/hr across 115 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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 Largo, FL

Largo, FL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 222 other active welding openings from 151 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

Welding Shop in Tampa, FL currently has 8 other openings live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (14), Aerotek (8), and Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tampa at $36/hr, Jacksonville at $30/hr, and Cocoa at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Structural Steel Fabricator / Layout figures were last recalculated when this page was built.