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Job Description

Overview

OPW Clean Energy Solutions is committed to shaping the future of the clean energy industry and expanding into innovative realms. The Welder position involves laying out, fitting, and welding pipe and structural materials for the fabrication of components.

Responsibilities

  • Selects equipment and plans layout, assembles, and welds.
  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and fits components together.
  • Fabrics from sketches, blueprints or instruction.
  • Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds parts to secure in position for welding.
  • Sets up equipment and welds parts using various welding processes.
  • Repairs/reworks products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Uses hand and power tools to perform work.
  • Examines weld for bead size and other visual specifications.
  • Lays out, positions, and tack welds work pieces for fit-up.
  • Welds along vertical or overhead weld lines.
  • Chips or grinds off excess weld, slag, or spatter.
  • Assembles completed spool pieces into final assemblies per drawings and spec sheets.
  • Be able to qualify for ASME Code welding as required.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED, technical school preferred.
  • 3+ years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Ability to weld in a 6G position preferred.
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How this job compares in Lonsdale, MN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Minnesota currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$30/hr across 55 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 Lonsdale, MN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lonsdale, MN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 78 other active welding openings from 54 employers. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN (8), Staffmark (3), and U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.
  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

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