Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a skilled Welder/Fabricator to join a growing manufacturing team in Pevely, MO. This is a hands-on fabrication position for someone who can take individual pieces of structural material, read a drawing, and build a completed assembly from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret fabrication drawings, blueprints, and measurements.
  • Fit and assemble structural tubing and fabricated components.
  • Build assemblies from individual cut pieces and materials.
  • Lay out components according to drawings and specifications.
  • Fit multiple fabricated sections together to create completed assemblies.
  • Measure, align, and square components prior to and during welding.
  • Perform welding required to complete fabricated assemblies.
  • Verify dimensions and overall fit throughout the fabrication process.
  • Make adjustments as necessary to ensure finished products meet specifications.
  • Work independently from drawings with limited supervision.
  • Maintain a safe and organized work area.

Requirements

  • Previous welding and/or metal fabrication experience.
  • Experience fitting and assembling fabricated or structural components strongly preferred.
  • Ability to read and work from blueprints, drawings, or fabrication prints.
  • Strong tape measure and basic shop math skills.
  • Ability to take individual pieces of material and understand how they come together into a finished assembly.
  • Understanding of fit-up, alignment, and keeping fabricated structures square.
  • Comfortable working with structural tubing and similar fabricated materials.
  • Able to produce quality work without relying on repetitive production processes.

Additional Information

  • Schedule: Full-Time
  • Location: Pevely, MO

Benefits

Vision

How this job compares in Horine, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 27% below the $31/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Missouri, where the middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 11% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Horine, MO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Horine, MO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 47 employers. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Webco Manufacturing (18), QPS Employment Group (8), and CGB Enterprises, Inc. (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 Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Louis at $29/hr and Kansas City at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Horine, MO

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