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Job Description

Overview

Hiring experienced Welder/Fabricators for 1st and 2nd shift in Merrill, WI. This full-time position offers a 4-day workweek, strong starting pay, no-deductible health insurance, steady year-round work, and custom fabrication projects with variety.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG and Flux-core welding on custom fabrication projects.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and fabrication drawings.
  • Layout, fit, and assemble fabricated components.
  • Inspect welds for quality.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance

Additional Information

  • 4-day workweek
  • 1st and 2nd shift
  • Location: Merrill, WI

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How this job compares in Merrill, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $15/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $24/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Wisconsin, where the middle half runs $20–$26/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Merrill, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Merrill, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 121 other active welding openings from 80 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (9), Staff on Site (9), and Welding Shop in Milwaukee, WI (6). 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 and Flux-Core work. 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. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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