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Job Description

Overview

ATS is a company with over 50 years of success in aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul, emphasizing quality, service, and safety. The Welder I position involves supporting the maintenance and repair of commercial aircraft under direct supervision.

Responsibilities

  • Performs welding of aerospace stainless steel and aluminum to OEM and industry specifications using manual and/or automated equipment.
  • Prepares parts for welding including cutting, blending, chamfering, and cleaning.
  • Prepares parts for post-weld inspection processes such as NDT, dye penetrant, X-ray, and chemical treatments.
  • Performs MIG welding, including aluminum bead vertical, horizontal, and flat.
  • Sets up MIG machines for the type of material being worked.
  • Lays out and fits all parts, maintaining all dimensional parameters.
  • Performs TIG butt and fillet welding.
  • Sets up TIG machines for the type and thickness of material being worked.
  • Fabrics fixtures and tooling to support aircraft and component operations.
  • Completes job and traveler cards, forms, and paperwork as required.
  • Completes job documentation via CMMS and Oracle based work order systems.
  • Ensures communication of all work handoffs for shift changes and technician changes.
  • Participates in continuous improvement activities to improve safety and efficiency.
  • Assists other welders with on-call duties for night and weekend work.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent and one (1) year of practical aircraft welding experience, or equivalent combination of experience and education.
  • AWS D17.1 certification (aerospace endorsement) preferred.
  • FAA Airframe rating preferred.
  • NDT experience preferred.
  • Heavy vehicle and industrial facility welding preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • The schedule for this position is Monday through Friday 6:00am – 2:30pm.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Everett, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 25% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Washington, where the middle half runs $29–$38/hr across 64 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Everett, WA

Everett, WA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 83 other active welding openings from 47 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Everett, or widen the search to Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (16), All American Marine (4), and Parker Hannifin (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 Bremerton at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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