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Job Description

Overview

A growing food manufacturing company in the Idaho Falls area is seeking an experienced Welder / Fabricator to build, modify, and maintain custom production equipment. This position involves approximately 75% welding and fabrication and 25% equipment maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG and TIG welding, primarily on stainless steel.
  • Fabricate complete machines, equipment frames, guards, and custom components.
  • Work with sheet metal and material ranging from approximately 3/16 inch to 1/4 inch thick.
  • Read and interpret fabrication prints, mechanical drawings, and electrical prints.
  • Measure, lay out, fit, assemble, and finish fabricated components.
  • Use plasma cutters, torches, grinders, brakes, shears, drill presses, and other fabrication equipment.
  • Assist with equipment design, modifications, and process-control improvements.
  • Support production and packaging line efficiency.
  • Assemble and set up equipment for daily production.
  • Make equipment adjustments based on weight checks and production requirements.
  • Tear down machinery for inspections, repairs, and preventative maintenance.
  • Troubleshoot conveyors, bearings, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics, and related mechanical systems.
  • Follow USDA requirements and company food-safety procedures.

Requirements

  • Strong MIG and TIG welding experience.
  • Experience welding and fabricating stainless steel.
  • Ability to fabricate components and equipment from prints and drawings.
  • Strong mathematics, measurement, and layout skills.
  • Experience with product design, equipment design, or process control.
  • Comfortable working with sheet metal and material up to 1/4 inch thick.
  • Experience using common welding and fabrication tools.
  • Ability to read mechanical and electrical prints.
  • Mechanical aptitude and the ability to troubleshoot production equipment.
  • Ability to work second shift and approximately 5–10 hours of overtime per week.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 2nd Shift: 1:30pm-10pm Monday-Friday

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
PTO
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How this job compares in St Anthony, ID

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Idaho — toward the top of a $24–$39/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 62% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in St Anthony, ID

St Anthony, ID is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Idaho as a whole we're tracking 20 other active welding openings from 17 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Idaho.

Jobot currently has 1 other opening live in Idaho, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Idaho at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are MasTec Industrial, a MasTec Company (2), Mission Critical Group (2), and The Contractor Consultants (2). 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 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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