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Job Description

Overview

This role is perfect for a candidate who just received their welding certification or has less than 1-2 years of experience and is looking to be a part of an amazing team! The pay range for this position is $23 - $25/hour.

Responsibilities

  • Perform ordinary and repetitive hand welding operations.
  • All MIG welding.
  • Care required in clamping parts in relative position to avoid distortion.
  • Operate welding equipment; regulate current and voltage or gas and feed rate for proper fusion of metals.
  • Heavy lifting may be required.

Requirements

  • Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Must be able to plan and layout welding sequence, referring to drawings, blueprints, or specifications.
  • May layout and mark weld points on parts or assemblies using a tape measure, square, scribe, or templates.
  • Must be proficient at reading work orders.
  • A concern for quality control is a requirement.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Paid weekly.
  • Monday - Friday (7am-3:30pm).

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Woodbury, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, where the middle half runs $24–$29/hr across 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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 Woodbury, MN

Woodbury, MN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 107 other active welding openings from 67 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Woodbury, or widen the search to Minnesota.

Eliason Corporation currently has 2 other openings 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.

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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