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Overview

A metal fabrication shop is seeking welders and fitters with a preference for candidates who have 3 years of experience and can read blueprints. The ideal candidates must be dependable, follow instructions, and safely use hand tools.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding and fitting tasks in a metal fabrication shop.
  • Read and understand blueprints.
  • Safely use hand tools such as grinders, sanders, and drills.

Requirements

  • 3 years of experience preferred.
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints.
  • Dependable and able to follow instructions.
  • Overhead crane experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Paid Holidays

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is 5:00AM - 1:30PM, Monday through Friday.

Benefits

Medical
Paid Holidays
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR — toward the top of a $26–$33/hr middle band drawn from 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 59% 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 Portland, OR

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Portland, OR right now, from 15 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 73 other active welding openings from 44 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Portland, or widen the search to Oregon.

Welding Shop in Portland, OR currently has 13 other openings live in Oregon, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (13), AAON, Inc. (4), and Sulzer (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oregon, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Redmond at $29/hr and Portland at $29/hr. Portland is among them.

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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. welder/ fitters needed figures were last recalculated when this page was built.