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Overview

The Combination Welder position at Austin Industrial involves joining metal parts using various welding techniques and equipment. The company has over 60 years of experience providing maintenance and construction services to industrial sectors across the U.S.

Responsibilities

  • Use spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
  • Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turn valves to release mixture.
  • Reach expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
  • Preheat work pieces for welding or curving using torch.
  • Fill holes or correct mistakes in lead pieces and make bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
  • Check the weakness of work pieces and measure with straightedge or template to ensure specifications are met.
  • Climb up ladders or work on scaffolds to take apart textures.
  • Signal crane operator to lift large work pieces.
  • Use thermal-cutting equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
  • Use hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
  • Choose place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
  • Instruct and bring flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
  • Join pieces together, cover up taut points, and add metal to develop parts.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • No minimum education requirements.
  • 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience in welding.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
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How this job compares in Decatur, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $25–$36/hr across 164 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 51% 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 Decatur, IL

Decatur, IL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 238 other active welding openings from 160 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (11), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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, Peoria at $31/hr, and South Beloit at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Decatur, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Combination Welder- Austin Industrial Decatur, IL (Cap East) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.