Welder - 1st Shift
Location
Sauk Rapids, MN
Wage
$19.09 – $32.45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
Location
Sauk Rapids, MN
Wage
$19.09 – $32.45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
Ichor Systems has an immediate opening for a Welder in Sauk Rapids, MN, responsible for operating various welding machines and ensuring compliance with manufacturing standards. The company specializes in critical subsystems and turnkey process equipment, providing a complete outsourced solution from product concept to manufacturing.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $24–$29/hr across 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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.
Sauk Rapids, MN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 107 other active welding openings from 67 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.
Ichor Systems, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Minnesota Jobs (9), Lake Air Products (4), and Award 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.
This posting calls for TIG. 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.