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Overview

This position works under direct supervision while using MIG welders to assemble steel fabrications to job order specifications and engineering drawings. The team member will be required to follow and meet safety and quality standards while maintaining production.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to Terex safety policies and procedures
  • Perform in position MIG welding of tack-welded components
  • Assemble and tack-weld steel frames and other component parts of machinery and equipment in preparation for final welding
  • Produce strong quality welds that meet site quality standards
  • Use locating fixtures and positioners to assist in the welding process
  • Understand the metal fabricating processes
  • Read and understand drawings and welding symbols
  • Utilize quality checks to meet product standards
  • Read a tape measure and blueprints
  • Practice 5S within assigned area
  • Maintain standard production times while maintaining quality work
  • Perform any other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED
  • MIG ARC welding vocation training preferred but not required
  • Preferred experience in manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of basic fabrication practices and materials is preferred
  • General mechanical knowledge is preferred
  • Willing to use air, power and hand tools, including cutting torches and grinders

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in USA, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Michigan, where the middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 57 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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 USA, MI

USA, MI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 63 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Michigan.

Terex currently has 1 other opening live in Michigan, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Qualified Staffing (8), Welding Shop in Detroit, MI (6), and General Motors (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. 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.

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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. Welder - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.