Welder Fabricator
Location
Alta Vista, IA
Wage
$43,680/yr
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 30, 2026
Location
Alta Vista, IA
Wage
$43,680/yr
Posted on August 30, 2026
Position Title: Welder Fabricator Wage: $21.00/hour Shift: 1st Hours: 5:00am - 3:30pm (Monday - Thursday) Are your skills not being fully utilized? Reach your maximum potential by working with QPS! QPS Employment Group has a great opportunity available for an Industrial Painter at a company in Vista, IA. This is a direct hire position for 1st shift. Apply now! Welder Fabricator Responsibilities: - Set up and operate welding equipment to fabricate metal components - Perform welding tasks using MIG welding - Inspecting welded joints for quality and accuracy - Utilizing hand tools and machinery to cut, shape, and assemble metal components - Operate a forklift to move materials as needed - Adhere to safety guidelines and maintain a clean work environment        Requirements for Welder Fabricator: - Ability to stand throughout a 10-hour shift - Ability to lift, bend, twist, push, or pull throughout a 10-hour shift - Ability to complete repetitive physical labor for a long period of time - Ability to lift up to 50lbs throughout a 10-hour shift - Candidates *MUST HAVE* a proven track record of several years of solid work history; please include details of your work experience on your resume - At least two years of experience with fabrication and MIG welding - Experience operating a forklift preferred - Ability to use different hand tools and machinery - Ability to accurately read tape measures and blueprints - Mechanical knowledge of various metals, their properties, and welding processes IND098 QPS Employment Group is a full-service staffing firm comprised of dedicated and passionate people with over 50 offices throughout the United States. We place great people with great companies in industrial, skilled trades, administrative, manufacturing, general labor and professional employment. Hiring immediately!   Why Work with QPS? - Access to sought-after positions with leading employers - Dedicated placement specialists who will guide you through every step of the job search process   Best of all, our job matching and resume assistance services are 100% free to job seekers! We will never ask you to pay a fee.   Please note that QPS Employment Group may use a virtual recruiting assistant to help screen and schedule candidates efficiently. All information collected through this process is used solely for employment purposes and is handled securely in accordance with our privacy policy.   We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Iowa, where the middle half runs $22–$35/hr across 33 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 15% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Alta Vista, IA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Iowa as a whole we're tracking 46 other active welding openings from 34 employers. Browse welding jobs across Iowa.
QPS Employment Group currently has 2 other openings live in Iowa, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Iowa at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (5), Cushman & Wakefield (2), and Precision Build Solutions LLC (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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 welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.