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Job Description

Overview

King Marine Canvas is seeking experienced marine canvas and upholstery fabricators. With over 40 years in the industry and a strong customer base in the Greater Seattle/Puget Sound area, the company values quality, dependability, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

  • Manufacture raw goods into finished products, ready for install or delivery.
  • Pay attention to detail and ensure precise measurements.
  • Use hand tools and operate power tools effectively.
  • Organize workflow, prioritize orders, and meet customer needs and production deadlines.
  • Support team members in the field and at the shop.

Requirements

  • Professional canvas or upholstery experience is preferred.
  • Experience with installation and on-site delivery is a plus.
  • Experience with building furniture or reupholstery is a plus.
  • Experience with creating custom patterns or templates is a plus.
  • Experience with garment alterations or tailoring is a plus.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Full-Time position, Monday - Friday, 8-hour shifts with overtime opportunities available.
  • $500 Retention Bonus after 90 days.

Benefits

Health Insurance
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How this job compares in Seattle, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 24% below the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Washington, where the middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Seattle, WA

Seattle, WA currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 8 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 98 other active welding openings from 59 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Seattle, or widen the search to Washington.

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

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (17), Loenbro (6), and Parker Hannifin (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $55/hr, Seattle at $35/hr, and Redmond at $28/hr. Seattle is among them.

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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. Marine Canvas Fabricator / Upholstery Specialist figures were last recalculated when this page was built.