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CNH

Welder - 1st Shift

Location

Grand Island, NE

Wage

$27.24/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on August 23, 2026

Job Description

Overview

CNH Industrial is focused on innovation, sustainability, and productivity to support farmers and builders globally. They seek a Welder for the 1st shift to join their collaborative team and contribute to their mission of advancing agricultural and construction solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Work from orders, blueprints, route and method sheets, and direction from supervisor.
  • Welds together metal components as specified by layout, diagram, work order, welding procedures, and oral instructions, using electric wire feed welding equipment.
  • Obtain welding fixtures and positioners from storage, identifying by part or tool number as indicated on route sheet.
  • Weld beads of prescribed length, radius, and size to fasten elements securely together to meet specifications and leak proof seams when required.
  • Weld elements to make regular and irregular, eccentric, and symmetrical weldments of simple or design.
  • Vary amperage and voltage to obtain quality weld at maximum linear speed consistent with good.
  • Obtain accurate angular, dimensional and spatial relationships, within specified limits, by careful fixture, proper positioning, clamping, and checking of parts in fixture.
  • Strike arc to generate heat to melt and deposit metal from electrode to work piece and join edges of work piece.
  • Manually guide gun along weld line, maintaining length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead.
  • Weld in flat, horizontal, and vertical positions.
  • Clean or degrease weld joint or work piece using wire brush, portable grinder or chemical bath.
  • May cut metal plate or structural shapes using oxy/acetylene torch.
  • Overtime may be required in addition to occasional Saturday operations.

Requirements

  • 1 year of manufacturing experience and/or a certificate/degree in welding.

Benefits

  • Savings & Retirement benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility & Family building support
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • Charitable contribution matching
  • Volunteer Time Off

Benefits

Savings & Retirement benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Parental leave
Adoption assistance
Fertility & Family building support
Employee Assistance Programs
Charitable contribution matching
Volunteer Time Off
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How this job compares in Grand Island, NE

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska, whose middle half runs $23–$29/hr across 22 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Grand Island, NE

Grand Island, NE currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 26 other active welding openings from 22 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Grand Island, or widen the search to Nebraska.

The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Standard Iron (2), Valmont Industries (2), and Klute Careers (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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 - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.