Job Description

Overview

Cadrex is searching for a Welder II to use Manual Welding skills to manufacture weldments to defined specifications, workmanship standards, and production schedule. Join our team and help build advanced AI hardware used by leading companies around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and set up necessary tools and equipment for welding jobs
  • Arrange parts for welding and staging processes
  • Perform quality inspection/checks per quality documentation/control plan
  • Detect and report defective materials or questionable conditions to the Lead
  • Maintain work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follows prescribed safety procedures
  • Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
  • Uphold site efficiency standards
  • Learn and demonstrate continuous improvement for Safety and Quality standards and procedures
  • Perform other duties as requested by the Lead
  • Assist in other work areas as assigned
  • Understand welding symbols, print tolerances and quality measuring equipment
  • Work completely independently without supervision
  • Trouble shoot and resolve issues in assigned work center
  • Produce quality work at company standard efficiency level for assigned work center
  • Cross trained in multiple workstations

Requirements

  • 1+ years in a metal manufacturing setting preferred
  • Pass AWS certifications for MIG welding steel and aluminum
  • Possess a basic understanding of welding symbols, print tolerances and quality measuring equipment
  • Meet or exceed company PPM level standards by consistently producing quality work
  • Obtain and maintain weld certifications in two or more welding processes specific to employee’s location
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure
  • Ability to read and interpret prints and work orders
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
  • High School Diploma

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Onsite
  • 1st Shift; M-F (7:00am - 3:30pm)
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and vibration
  • The employee is occasionally exposed to the risk of electrical shock
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud
  • The employee is regularly required to stand, sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and talk or hear
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Bloomingdale, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 252 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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 Bloomingdale, IL

Bloomingdale, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 266 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bloomingdale, or widen the search to Illinois.

Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions currently has 2 other openings live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (18), Gerber Collision & Glass (8), and Aerotek (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $36/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Melrose Park at $34/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.

Similar openings near Bloomingdale, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder II - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.