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Overview

The Fabricator position is responsible for ensuring quality work, productivity, safety, and general housekeeping while working independently. The role requires skills in welding and fabrication of machinery components from blueprints and sketches.

Responsibilities

  • Promote excellence throughout the department
  • Conduct themselves in a safe manner
  • Maintain a safe and clean work area
  • Read, write and interpret complex blueprints and lists of materials
  • Fabricate components and assemblies from blueprints and sketches
  • Plan various operations required to make assemblies
  • Become familiar with and fabricate pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical systems
  • Be familiar with construction and operation of shop equipment and maintain it
  • Perform routine machine set-up
  • Act as a group leader if accepted
  • Ensure continuous improvement in machine quality, safety, weld strength and appearance, and productivity
  • Design, build and install guards and drive assemblies
  • Set-up and install drive assemblies
  • Perform final quality checks of products
  • Conduct dimensional verification of parts and final product
  • Work in other areas of the operation as directed by supervision
  • Complete other tasks as assigned by supervision

Requirements

  • Dedication to excellence and quality output
  • Skill-set for quick, accurate jigging and checking of products
  • Ability to perform high quality welds in all positions
  • Ability to weld on stainless steel and other alloys
  • Skill-set to perform TIG, MIG and ARC welding
  • Ability to perform surface finish specifications up to food grade on stainless steel
  • Employee must supply all basic tools required for the job
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How this job compares in Kalamazoo, MI

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Michigan currently run a median of $24/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$29/hr across 18 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Kalamazoo, MI

Kalamazoo, MI currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 142 other active welding openings from 102 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Kalamazoo, or widen the search to Michigan.

PRAB, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Michigan, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Technique, Inc Jobs (5), Aerotek (4), and Qualified Staffing (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 Michigan, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Holland at $28/hr and Livonia at $23/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. 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.

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. FABRICATOR figures were last recalculated when this page was built.