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Job Description

Overview

A well-established Kansas City manufacturer is seeking a career-minded individual for a Welder/Fabricator position. The company specializes in custom sheet metal fabrication for the food processing and wastewater treatment industries, building industrial pneumatic conveying systems and sound enclosures.

Requirements

  • Mig welding experience
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Dependable
  • Ability to read a tape measure
  • Experience using basic power tools
  • Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs
  • Ability to adapt
  • Forklift driving ability is a plus
  • Blueprint reading ability is a big plus

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Shift hours: 7am-3:30pm or 8am-4:30pm
  • Welders start at $20 - $27 per hour depending on experience with a 90 Day Review/Raise

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Kansas City, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Missouri, whose middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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 Kansas City, MO

Kansas City, MO currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 77 other active welding openings from 52 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Kansas City, or widen the search to Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (6), Webco Manufacturing (6), 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.

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.

See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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 / FABRICATOR***** figures were last recalculated when this page was built.