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Overview

Welders manufacture major assemblies for refuse truck products using MIG welding machines with mild steel ranging from 14 gauge to 1.5” in thickness. They must be accomplished welders capable of passing a company weld test prior to employment.

Responsibilities

  • Plans details of work order procedures.
  • Gathers required tools and materials based on instructions and specifications provided for the job.
  • Repairs and fabricates various items and equipment.

Requirements

  • Must be an accomplished welder.
  • Capable of passing a company weld test prior to employment.

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How this job compares in Gothenburg, NE

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska, whose middle half runs $18–$29/hr across 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Gothenburg, NE

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Gothenburg, NE, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 30 other active welding openings from 25 employers. Browse welding jobs across Nebraska.

The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valmont Industries, Inc. (3), Klute Careers (2), and Generac (2). 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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