Job Description

Overview

The Fabricator operates and sets up fabricating machines to cut, shape, and bend metal plates, sheets, and structures. MiTek is a platform innovator in the building industry, providing solutions to improve efficiencies in design and construction.

Responsibilities

  • Setup various stamping and support equipment including cut-off presses, punch presses, break presses, and benders.
  • Meet and/or exceed daily safety, quality, and production goals.
  • Report all equipment malfunctions to mechanics or supervisors and assist in keeping the equipment operational.
  • Operate bar code scanning computers and machine operator interface controls.
  • Prepare product for shipment by lifting and stacking product onto conveyors and carts.
  • Strive to keep product waste to a minimum; inspect finished products and record quality measurements.
  • Attend work during the regularly scheduled shift and be ready for work at the start of the shift.
  • Cut and fabricate sheet metal parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies.
  • Document quality inspection into the data system.
  • Perform quality control including measurement of tolerances and dimensions.

Requirements

  • High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED).
  • One to three years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Some PC skills helpful, but not required.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with co-workers and management regarding work and safety issues.
  • Mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed instructions.

Benefits

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

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k

How this job compares in Tolleson, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Arizona currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$33/hr across 23 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Tolleson, AZ

We're tracking 13 other active welding openings in Tolleson, AZ right now, from 8 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 458 other active welding openings from 222 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tolleson, or widen the search to Arizona.

MiTek currently has 4 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (26), EZARC (21), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (17). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Goodyear at $39/hr, Phoenix at $32/hr, and Mesa at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Tolleson, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fabricator | 2nd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.