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Overview

QPS Employment Group offers a Welder / Fitter position in Ferguson, MO, with a competitive wage and the potential for hire. This role involves fitting and welding steel pieces for various assemblies on the first shift.

Responsibilities

  • Fit-up steel pieces for welding fixtures and jigs
  • Ensure proper alignment and dimensional specifications of every fit
  • Weld or tack parts into various sub-assemblies or complete assemblies

Requirements

  • Certificate from college or technical school; or five-seven years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination and experience
  • Experienced Welder with possible skills in Subarc (SAW), with experience in Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SWAW) and Flux Core (FCAW) preferred
  • Fitting experience preferred
  • Able to kneel, squat, crawl, or stand for extended periods of time inside a pipe
  • Able to work at heights
  • Experience using an overhead crane to move product from one location to another
  • Knowledgeable of welding technology, equipment types, applications, and material characteristics
  • Able to read a tape measure and properly apply to pipe sizes
  • Able to use hand grinders and other miscellaneous hand tools
  • Team player with leadership skills and abilities

Additional Information

  • 1st shift hours are from 6:00am to 2:30pm
  • This is a potential to hire position
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How this job compares in Saint Louis, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Saint Louis, MO, where the middle half runs $23–$36/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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 Saint Louis, MO

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Saint Louis, MO right now, from 10 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 77 other active welding openings from 53 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Saint Louis, or widen the search to Missouri.

QPS Employment Group currently has 5 other openings live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Webco Manufacturing (6), QPS Employment Group (5), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (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 Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Louis at $29/hr and Kansas City at $24/hr. Saint Louis is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick and Flux-Core work. 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. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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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 / Fitter figures were last recalculated when this page was built.