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Overview

The Custom Truck Fabrication Technician is responsible for designing, fabricating, installing, and modifying custom truck components and assemblies, focusing on high-quality craftsmanship for custom truck builds. This role requires the ability to work from drawings and measurements while ensuring safety and customer-specific requirements are met.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate and install custom truck components such as flatbeds, service bodies, and dump bodies.
  • Create headache racks, toolboxes, and ladder racks.
  • Build bumpers, steps, mounts, brackets, and guards.
  • Install trailer hitches and towing components.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, fabrication drawings, and build specs.
  • Perform cutting, fitting, welding, and finishing of steel and aluminum components.
  • Execute MIG and TIG welding to structural and cosmetic standards.
  • Measure, layout, and fit components directly on truck frames and bodies.
  • Modify existing truck equipment to meet custom requirements.
  • Ensure proper alignment, clearances, and secure mounting of fabricated components.
  • Coordinate with shop foreman and other technicians to meet build timelines.
  • Inspect finished work for strength, fit, finish, and safety compliance.
  • Follow all safety protocols and maintain a clean, organized work area.
  • Assist with troubleshooting fitment or design challenges during builds.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in custom truck fabrication or automotive fabrication.
  • Strong welding skills (MIG required; TIG preferred).
  • Ability to read fabrication drawings and take accurate measurements.
  • Experience working with truck frames, chassis, and body components.
  • Proficiency with shop tools: saws, welders, presses, grinders, brakes, and hand tools.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude and problem-solving skills.
  • High attention to detail and pride in craftsmanship.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Additional Information

  • Custom fabrication and upfit shop environment.
  • PPE required (welding helmet, gloves, eye and hearing protection).
  • Occasional overtime based on production schedules.

Benefits

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How this job compares in Chancellor, SD

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 18% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across South Dakota — toward the top of a $25–$26/hr middle band drawn from 26 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Chancellor, SD

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Chancellor, SD, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 42 other active welding openings from 21 employers. Browse welding jobs across South Dakota.

The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Terex (14), DeGeest Corporation (3), and Dakota Bodies (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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.

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