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Job Description

Overview

We are hiring Structural Welders to join a busy fabrication shop building custom equipment for the oil & gas industry. Candidates should have at least 1 year of welding experience.

Responsibilities

  • Weld structural steel components including skids, platforms, pipe supports, and equipment bases
  • Read blueprints, weld symbols, and fabrication drawings
  • Perform quality welds and inspect finished work
  • Use grinders, torches, and other fabrication tools
  • Work with the fabrication team to complete custom projects
  • Follow all safety and quality standards

Requirements

  • Minimum 1 year of structural welding experience
  • Ability to read blueprints and weld symbols
  • Experience with structural steel fabrication
  • Familiarity with grinders, measuring tools, and shop equipment
  • Reliable attendance and willingness to work overtime
  • Weld Test Required
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How this job compares in Tulsa, OK

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs in Tulsa, OK, where the middle half runs $26–$29/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Tulsa, OK

We're tracking 33 other active welding openings in Tulsa, OK right now, from 27 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 90 other active welding openings from 68 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tulsa, or widen the search to Oklahoma.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (4), U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command (4), and Onin 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 Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tulsa at $27/hr and Claremore at $23/hr. Tulsa is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. 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.

See all structural welder 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. Structural Welders figures were last recalculated when this page was built.