Job Description

Now hiring for a Sheet Metal Fabricator

Location: Alexandria, MN

Pay Rate: $20.50 – $30.00 per hour

Schedule: 5 AM – 5 PM | Friday – Sunday

It Takes a Team to Keep the  Production Line Moving. Join Ours.

As a Sheet Metal Fabricator in Alexandria, you’ll be part of the team that keeps production flowing. You’ll load materials, check quality, and help meet daily goals. Bring a good attitude and a strong work ethic, and let Staffmark handle the rest.

Looking for Sheet Metal Fabricator jobs in Alexandria where hard work drives every shift? This opportunity lets you help manufacture quality products, support production goals, and contribute to a team that keeps operations running safely and efficiently.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED required; technical degree or 2+ years of sheet metal fabrication experience preferred.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to read blueprints and use precision measuring tools.
  • Detail-oriented, accurate, and eager to learn new fabrication methods.
  • Excellent work history with a team-oriented, positive attitude.

Job Duties

  • Read and interpret blueprints, machine drawings, and sketches to determine fabrication requirements.
  • Fabricate sheet metal parts using efficient methods, ensuring accuracy, quality, and appearance meet company standards.
  • Set up and operate fabrication equipment such as press brakes, punches, and shears.
  • Select appropriate fabrication processes and use various tools and machines safely and effectively.
  • Maintain work area per 5S standards, report equipment maintenance needs, and follow all safety policies and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous manufacturing, assembly, production, warehouse, or industrial experience is preferred.
  • Experience operating production equipment, performing quality inspections, or meeting production goals is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement practices, or workplace safety procedures is considered an asset.
  • Individuals who demonstrate reliability, adaptability, teamwork, and a strong work ethic are well positioned for success as a Sheet Metal Fabricator.
  • Ability and desire to grow and take on new challenges/opportunities
  • Excellent work history
  • Able to read and understand blue prints
  • Able to read and use precision measuring tools
  • Able to learn and understand job methods and instructions in a timely manner
  • Team player with a can-do attitude
  • Good mechanical aptitude
  • Good problem-solving abilities
  • Able to do accurate work

Physical Capabilities

  • Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and perform repetitive production tasks throughout the shift.
  • Ability to lift materials, components, or finished products weighing up to 50 pounds.
  • Ability to safely operate around production equipment and moving machinery.
  • Ability to maintain productivity while working in fast-paced manufacturing environments.

Benefits

  • Competitive Weekly Pay
  • Comprehensive Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life and Disability Insurance for added peace of mind.
  • Optional 401(k) Plan to help you prepare for the future.
  • Safety-Focused Manufacturing Environment with opportunities for advancement and skill development.

Good place to work…the staff at this staffing agency were absolutely wonderful.” – Staffmark Production Team Member

What You Will Do As a Sheet Metal Fabricator you will support daily manufacturing operations by assembling products, operating production equipment, inspecting finished goods, packaging materials, maintaining production standards, and following established work instructions. You will help keep production areas clean and organized, monitor product quality, meet production goals, and contribute to safe, efficient manufacturing operations.

The Sheet Metal Fabricator is responsible for supporting manufacturing operations through production activities that help create quality finished products. This role requires dependability, attention to detail, and the ability to consistently follow production procedures.

Successful Sheet Metal Fabricator professionals understand manufacturing processes, production quality, workplace safety, and teamwork while maintaining productivity and operational efficiency. Consistency and reliability are essential characteristics for success.

This career is ideal for individuals who enjoy manufacturing and contributing to team success.

Benefits

401k
Dental
Vision

How this job compares in Alexandria, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% 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 Alexandria, MN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Alexandria, MN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 114 other active welding openings from 74 employers. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

Staffmark currently has 3 other openings live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (7), Minnesota Jobs (7), and Lake Air Products (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 Minnesota, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Anoka at $31/hr, Minneapolis at $28/hr, and Saint Paul at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Alexandria, MN

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Sheet Metal Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.