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Overview

Zing Recruiting, in partnership with a prominent manufacturing company in the Spartanburg, SC area, is seeking an experienced Welder/Fabrication Technician to join their team. This is a great opportunity for a skilled welder with experience in TIG welding, stainless steel, and custom fabrication.

Responsibilities

  • Weld and fabricate machinery and machine components.
  • Use both MIG and TIG welding techniques, including thin-gauge stainless steel.
  • Read and understand blueprints and fabrication drawings.
  • Fit, tack, fabricate, and complete final welds.
  • Build custom machinery and equipment.
  • Use precision measuring tools such as calipers, tape measures, and angle finders.
  • Use hand and power tools, saws, and plasma cutters as needed.
  • Lay out weld processes and determine proper measurements, angles, and proportions.
  • Maintain a clean and safe work area.
  • Follow all safety rules and procedures.
  • Work overtime when needed to complete machine builds.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of welding/fabrication experience preferred.
  • Strong TIG welding experience.
  • Experience welding thin-gauge stainless steel.
  • MIG welding experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints and build from drawings.
  • Previous custom fabrication or machine-building experience preferred.
  • Experience using precision measuring devices.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Manufacturing, automation, packaging, food processing, or OEM experience is a plus.
  • Welding certification or technical training is a plus.
  • Must be willing to work overtime when needed.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Shift: Monday–Thursday, 5:00 pm to 5:30 am.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Spartanburg, SC

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina, whose middle half runs $24–$36/hr across 58 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% 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 Spartanburg, SC

Spartanburg, SC currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 106 other active welding openings from 81 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Spartanburg, or widen the search to South Carolina.

The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Vertiv (4), and GE Vernova (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 South Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Duncan at $36/hr, Aiken at $29/hr, and Anderson at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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