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Job Description

Overview

Rocketdyne is seeking a TIG Welder for the night shift at their facility in Redmond, WA. The position involves welding various metals for company products and related equipment, ensuring compliance with weld specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding in accordance with existing manufacturing instructions.
  • Set up and operate automatic inert gas arc welding machines for longitudinal and circumferential welding.
  • Layout locations and make own setups as required.
  • Weld company products by certified processes while maintaining critical alignment tolerances.
  • Manually fusion weld various metals for fabrication and maintenance of machinery and equipment.
  • Perform other manufacturing tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
  • Complete training and attend company meetings as required.
  • Maintain a proven safety record and experience with PPE.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience or 2 years post-Secondary/Associates Degree with a minimum of 4 years of related experience.
  • 6+ years of G.T.A.W. experience welding hard alloys (stainless steel, titanium, Inconel, and/or steel).
  • Experience welding duct assemblies and controlling weld distortion and shrinkage.
  • Experience reading and using planning and drawings to meet specification requirements.

Additional Information

  • Job Location: Redmond, WA
  • Job Schedule: 2nd Shift 4/10 (Mon - Thu 3:30pm - 2am)
  • This position includes 10% shift differential pay.
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How this job compares in Redmond, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Washington — toward the top of a $30–$35/hr middle band drawn from 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 93% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Redmond, WA

Redmond, WA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 71 other active welding openings from 43 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (11), Parker Hannifin (4), and All American Marine (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 Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Seattle at $36/hr and Bremerton at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. Fabrication D (TIG Welder) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.