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Overview

The Welder is responsible for joining metal parts by safely setting up, maintaining, and operating welding equipment as specified by blueprints and work orders. The role requires working with minimal supervision and exercising independent judgment to ensure quality welding.

Responsibilities

  • Reads and interprets blueprints, specifications, diagrams, or schematics to determine appropriate welding processes.
  • Plans details of the work order procedures including gathering the required tools and materials based on instructions provided for the job.
  • Prepares, assembles and tacks weld parts and surfaces to be welded.
  • Repairs and fabricates various items and equipment using cutting, burning, and welding techniques and equipment meeting all production and quality standards and requirements.
  • Monitors the welding, cutting and fitting process to ensure parts are not overheated or damaged by warping, distortion, expansion or shrinkage.
  • Maintains, organizes, and cleans equipment and the work area.
  • Notifies supervisor when faulty equipment or defective materials are discovered.
  • Ensure all guards and safety equipment have been installed and properly checked.
  • Adhere to ISO 9001 Quality, ISO 14001 Environmental, and OSHA 18001 Certification requirements.
  • Required to understand and follow all safety policies and procedures.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • 1-3 years of practical welding experience.
  • Must be able to demonstrate the ability to successfully pass a weld certification test within the first six months of employment.
  • Thorough understanding of machines, principles, and tools used for welding including design, use, maintenance and repair.
  • Must have the ability to read, understand and interpret blueprints.
  • Basic understanding of design techniques, principles, and tools necessary for the precise production of technical plans, drawings, models and blueprints.
  • Must have a high level of attention to detail for quality welds.
  • Basic understanding of mathematics as related to welding assignments.
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How this job compares in Shawnee, OK

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Oklahoma currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$31/hr across 48 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Shawnee, OK

Shawnee, OK is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 97 other active welding openings from 72 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Oklahoma.

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

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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.