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Job Description

Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Structural Welder position involves various welding responsibilities in a manufacturing environment, with a focus on safety and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Understand all safety rules and precautions for a manufacturing environment.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed/travel, and gas flow with bead conditions.
  • Read a tape measure and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide when adjustments or gun manipulations are needed.
  • Determine repairs for pin holes and burn-through caused by an auto welder.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures according to manufacturing job procedures.
  • Operate overhead crane and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified shapes, sizes, and penetrations of beads while ensuring product quality.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Maintain continuous improvement practices in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects and duties by the Team Leader.

Requirements

  • Associates degree or equivalent from a 2-year College or technical school, or 1 to 3 years of welding experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Comprehend documents including policy manuals, safety rules, and operating instructions.
  • Effective communication skills in one-on-one and small group settings.
  • Perform general mathematical calculations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, percentages, and division.
  • Required to use power hand tools.
  • Required to drive a forklift.
  • Ability to meet deadlines effectively.
  • Read different measuring devices like tape measures and protractors.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds continuously above shoulder height and below the waist.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Life Insurance
  • Long Term Disability
  • Short Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Training
  • Professional Development

Additional Information

  • Base pay starts at $25.00 - $27.00 per hour.
  • Work Schedule: 5:00 AM - 1:30 PM (Monday - Friday).
  • Overtime is expected.
  • Site Address: 101 W South St, Monticello, IA 52310.
  • Walk-In-Interview: Thursday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
Life Insurance
Long Term Disability
Short Term Disability
Employee Assistance Program
Tuition Reimbursement
Training
Professional Development
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How this job compares in Monticello, IA

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Iowa, whose middle half runs $22–$35/hr across 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Monticello, IA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Monticello, IA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Iowa as a whole we're tracking 44 other active welding openings from 33 employers. Browse welding jobs across Iowa.

The most active employers in Iowa at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (4), Cushman & Wakefield (3), and Afinitas (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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