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Job Description

Overview

Join a growing manufacturing team in Strafford, MO as a Class B MIG Welder on the 2nd shift, where your welding skills will directly impact production quality and output. This position is suited for experienced welders or fabricators looking to advance beyond entry-level work.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG welding on doors, sills, handles, tanks, and stainless components.
  • Complete tack welding.
  • Grind and finish welded components.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Schedule: Monday–Thursday, 3:30 PM – 1:30 AM
  • Pay: $20–$22/hour with a $2.00/hour shift differential
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How this job compares in Strafford, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 28% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri, where the middle half runs $23–$33/hr across 64 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 13% 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 Strafford, MO

Strafford, MO is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 50 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

Koch Enterprises Family of Companies currently has 2 other openings live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Webco Manufacturing (18), QPS Employment Group (6), and CGB Enterprises, Inc. (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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Class B Welder (2nd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.