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Thermeq Company

Welder/Fabricator

Location

Waterville, OH

Wage

$20 – $25/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingSteelStainless SteelAluminum
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Job Description

Overview

Thermeq Company, located in Waterville Ohio, is an Industrial Equipment and Steel Provider currently looking for full-time Welder/Fabricators. They offer complete Project Management services including design, fabrication and product installation, with a product base that includes manufacturing of Thermal and Mechanical equipment, Commercial and Residential Steel, and Miscellaneous metal fabrication.

Responsibilities

  • Perform layouts, fit-ups and MIG welding process based on provided blueprints.

Requirements

  • Ability to pass a D1.1 Unlimited test.
  • Experience in steel fabrication (3 years preferred).
  • Blueprint reading skills.
  • Ability to operate various equipment.
  • Stainless Steel or Aluminum welding experience is a plus.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift: Monday thru Friday 6:00am to 4:30pm.
  • 2nd Shift: Sunday thru Thursday 3:30pm to 2:00am.
  • Employees on 2nd Shift receive an additional shift premium.
  • Drug-Free Workplace.
  • Work Location: In person.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Waterville, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $26/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Ohio, where the middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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 Waterville, OH

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Waterville, OH, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 175 employers. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (9), Staffmark (5), and Kadant Black Clawson LLC (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 Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $33/hr, Aurora at $32/hr, and Cleveland 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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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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.