Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a part time 1st Shift Fitter Welder to become an integral part of our team. The Fitter Welder will have high familiarity with blueprint reading and specifications, planning layout, troubleshooting, and performing final welds using necessary measurement instruments.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret blueprints and specifications.
  • Plan layout and troubleshoot welding tasks.
  • Secure parts and assemblies during fit up.
  • Perform final welds and self-inspection to print.
  • Conduct production style (fixture) welding as needed.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

Employment Type

Part-time

How this job compares in Sussex, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $24–$29/hr across 93 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 32% 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 Sussex, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Sussex, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 149 other active welding openings from 100 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (9), QPS Employment Group (6), 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.

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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. Part Time 1st Shift Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.