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Job Description

Overview

A metal fabrication shop is seeking welders and fitters with at least 3 years of experience. Candidates must be dependable, able to read blueprints, and safely use hand tools.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding and fitting tasks in a metal fabrication shop.
  • Read and understand blueprints.
  • Follow instructions and maintain dependability.
  • Safely use hand tools such as grinders, sanders, and drills.
  • Operate overhead cranes as needed.

Requirements

  • 3 years of experience preferred.
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints.
  • Dependable and able to follow instructions.
  • Experience using hand tools such as grinders, sanders, and drills.
  • Overhead crane experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Paid Holidays

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is 5:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

Benefits

Medical
Paid Holidays
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR, whose middle half runs $27–$33/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Portland, OR

We're tracking 21 other active welding openings in Portland, OR right now, from 12 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 66 other active welding openings from 44 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Portland, or widen the search to Oregon.

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

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (8), AAON, Inc. (4), and Sulzer (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 Oregon, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Portland at $30/hr and Redmond at $26/hr. Portland is among them.

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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/ fitters needed figures were last recalculated when this page was built.