Job Description

Overview

ATC is looking for a qualified Production Team Member – Welder to join our team in Nappanee, Indiana. The company values trust, respect, vigorous learning, quality, family/community, and financial stability, aiming to create long-term value for employees, community, and customers.

Responsibilities

  • Verifies quantity, quality, and specified length of extrusions used to weld frame components.
  • Assembles frame components according to blueprint specifications and verifies accuracy prior to welding.
  • Welds aluminum extrusions together while following safety protocols and utilizing required PPE.
  • Verifies that the product meets safety and quality specifications prior to releasing the trailer to the next station.
  • Notifies team leader of any issues and collaborates with team members to create solutions.
  • Troubleshoots mechanical and technical issues and elevates to the appropriate party.
  • Inspects the trailers to ensure high-quality, meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
  • Performs some repairs as needed to ensure a high-quality product aligned to customer expectations.
  • Collaborates with team to identify areas for improvement in safety, quality, production, and lean manufacturing processes.
  • Cross-trains as needed and establishes personal development goals.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required; Welding experience and/or certification preferred.
  • 1+ years in a welding job and/or hands-on course preferred; Will train the right person who is mechanically inclined.
  • Basic mechanical skills or abilities; high attention to detail.
  • Basic math skills are required; Ability to read a tape measure.
  • Basic English reading, writing, and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Full-time position with core hours from 5:00am to 1:00pm, Monday to Friday.
  • Starting pay is $23.50/hour, increasing to $35.00/hour within 90 days of training.
  • Work location is in person.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Nappanee, IN

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana, whose middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 93 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Nappanee, IN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Nappanee, IN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 135 other active welding openings from 82 employers. Browse welding jobs across Indiana.

The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are NCW (37), Aerotek (4), and Lensing Building Specialties & Architectural Sales (4). 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. 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 aluminum welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Similar openings near Nappanee, IN

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