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Green PNW

Shop Welder/Fabricator - Competitive Pay, Great Environment

Location

Lake Oswego, OR

Wage

$22 – $30/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on August 14, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Green PNW is a well-established, locally owned company seeking full-time welders and fabricators to build metal products for the refuse industry, including roll-off dumpsters and waste container bins. The position offers a flexible schedule and opportunities for advancement.

Responsibilities

  • Weld, fabricate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to production.
  • Maintain welding equipment.
  • Read prints, layout, fit-up, welding, quality control.
  • Operate other shop equipment such as grinder, saw, forklift, crane, and plasma torch.

Requirements

  • Experience in MIG/GMAW welding, particularly with spray arc mig process averaging 550-700 IPM.
  • Ability to read shop drawings and be detail oriented.
  • Self-starter capable of working off little to no drawings with verbal directions.
  • Fitter/fabricator experience or heavy industrial fabrication experience preferred.
  • Ability to organize work plans and communicate effectively with fabrication personnel.
  • Maintain quality control and practice effective time management techniques.
  • Understand manufacturing methods and techniques.

Benefits

  • Employee benefits available after 90-day probationary period.

Additional Information

  • Flexible schedule with ability to choose hours, Monday to Friday from 6:00 AM to ~ 4:30 PM.
  • Overtime available.
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How this job compares in Lake Oswego, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Oregon, whose middle half runs $27–$34/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 10% 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 Lake Oswego, OR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lake Oswego, OR, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 66 other active welding openings from 43 employers. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (9), 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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. Shop Welder/Fabricator - Competitive Pay, Great Environment figures were last recalculated when this page was built.