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Overview

Buffalo Biodiesel Inc. is in growth mode and currently seeking MIG Welder/Fabricators to join their team at the Tonawanda Processing Plant. This role involves making, repairing, and maintaining carbon steel collection dumpsters using MIG welding techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Make, repair, and maintain carbon steel collection dumpsters.
  • Perform additional work such as making parts, painting, shearing, cutting, and bending.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 1 year MIG welding experience or recent BOCES welding graduate.
  • Exceptional welding skills and ability to work independently.
  • Hard working and reliable.
  • Drug free.
  • Able to lift 75lbs.
  • High school or equivalent education.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 1st shift: Monday to Friday 7:00am to 4:00pm.
  • Work location is in person.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Tonawanda, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $34/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 93 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% 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 Tonawanda, NY

Tonawanda, NY currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 139 other active welding openings from 88 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Tonawanda, or widen the search to New York.

Buffalo Biodiesel, Inc. currently has 2 other openings live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (12), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (6), and Alstom (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 New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $45/hr and Brooklyn at $40/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 MIG welder 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. MIG Welder - 1st shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.