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Job Description

Overview

Tarrier Steel is seeking a Structural Steel Fabricator to join their team. The position requires candidates to complete a pre-hire drug screen and offers both 1st and 2nd shifts.

Responsibilities

  • Identify piece marks, drawing revisions, and finish codes.
  • Determine necessary parts, their quantities, shapes, and grades.
  • Understand part orientation, weld symbols, and industry acronyms.
  • Identify the order of operations for fabricating assemblies.
  • Read and interpret structural steel shop drawings and weld symbols.
  • Perform accurate measurements, layout, and marking using various tools.
  • Perform tack welding.
  • Perform thermal cutting and grinding as required.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area.
  • Safely operate overhead cranes, welders, torches, and grinders.
  • Collaborate with CNC operators, foremen, welders, fabricators, painters, and QC personnel.
  • Fabricate work in accordance with AISC Quality Management System requirements.
  • Verify material heat numbers, piece marks, and orientation.
  • Perform self-inspection of work and correct issues before QC inspection.
  • Communicate discrepancies in drawings or materials to supervision.

Requirements

  • Experience in structural steel fabrication.
  • Strong ability to read and interpret structural steel shop drawings and weld symbols.
  • Proficiency in layout, fitting, and fabrication of structural steel.
  • Welding experience.
  • Experience operating overhead cranes.
  • Strong understanding of steel fabrication tolerances and quality requirements.
  • Dependable, safety-oriented, and quality-focused.
  • Proficient in tape measure reading, shop math skills, and blueprint reading.

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift is typically 5:30am - 4:00pm, M-F.
  • 2nd Shift is typically 4:00pm - 2:30am, M-F.

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How this job compares in Bexley, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio — toward the top of a $21–$30/hr middle band drawn from 139 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 68% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Bexley, OH

Bexley, OH is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 241 other active welding openings from 162 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

Tarrier Steel Company currently has 1 other opening live in Ohio, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (8), Kadant Black Clawson LLC (5), and TP Mechanical (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Aurora at $32/hr, Columbus at $28/hr, and Canton 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. 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. Structural Steel Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.