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Job Description

Overview

St. Thomas Steel Inc. is seeking a Structural Steel and Rail Fitter/Welder with the ability to read blueprints and pass MIG welding certification. The company has been established for 40 years and offers various benefits to its employees.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints for structural steel fitting and welding.
  • Pass MIG welding certification.
  • Fit steel in a shop environment.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 years shop experience fitting steel.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • MIG welding certification.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Health Insurance

Additional Information

  • Work hours are 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. M-F with some Saturdays required.
  • Reliable transportation is required due to lack of close bus routes.
  • Location: northwest Arvada area.

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
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How this job compares in denver, CO

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 32% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Colorado, where the middle half runs $24–$33/hr across 72 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 1% 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 denver, CO

denver, CO currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 59 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in denver, or widen the search to Colorado.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (9), Honeywell Technologies (4), 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 Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arvada at $30/hr, Denver at $29/hr, and Colorado Springs at $24/hr. denver 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.

See all structural welder 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. Structural Steel Fitter/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.