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Job Description

Overview

Sierra Pacific Industries is a fourth-generation family-owned company and one of the largest lumber and millwork producers in the United States, currently seeking a qualified swing shift fabricator for their fabrication shop in Shelton, Washington.

Responsibilities

  • Provide fabrication support for all manufacturing facilities throughout Washington.
  • Apply welding fabrication techniques to achieve visually and structurally sufficient welds.
  • Perform precision layout work and accurately read and interpret blueprints/plans, sketches, and verbal instructions.
  • Ensure product and process quality through self-inspection of finished products.
  • Possibility to work at other divisions, requiring travel.
  • Overtime sometimes expected during busy production times.

Requirements

  • 3 years’ welding and fabricating experience or educational equivalent preferred.
  • Experience with Mig, Arc, Dual Shield, cutting torch, metal cutting band saw, air arc, and fabrication tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to focus on current work while planning the next stages of work.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Position is for swing shift.
  • Location is Shelton, Washington.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Shelton, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Washington, where the middle half runs $27–$35/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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 Shelton, WA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Shelton, WA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 99 other active welding openings from 60 employers. Browse welding jobs across Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (17), Parker Hannifin (4), and Allegion (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $55/hr and Seattle at $33/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.

See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Fabricator (Shelton Fabrication Shop) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.