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Overview

The MIG Welder role focuses on producing high-quality welds for industrial automation and material handling equipment used in the food, beverage, and chemical industries. The position involves setting up and completing welding projects to precise blueprint specifications, ensuring accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Produce high-quality welds for industrial automation equipment.
  • Work on material handling equipment used in food, beverage, and chemical industries.
  • Set up and complete welding projects according to blueprint specifications.
  • Ensure accuracy in all welding tasks.

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How this job compares in Beaver Dam, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $24–$30/hr across 97 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% 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 Beaver Dam, WI

Beaver Dam, WI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 146 other active welding openings from 95 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

Aerotek currently has 6 other openings live in Wisconsin, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are JARP Industries Inc (9), Staff on Site (9), and Aerotek (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Oshkosh at $30/hr, Schofield at $26/hr, and Waukesha at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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 MIG 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. MIG Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.