Location
Maquoketa, IA
Wage
$23 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 23, 2026
As an Experienced MIG/TIG Welder & Fabricator, you will manufacture and assemble metal components, reading blueprints and applying AWS standards to ensure precise fabrication. You will leverage your measuring, machining, and metal knowledge to contribute to high-quality welds and joined assemblies while complying with safety and quality guidelines.
At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Iowa, whose middle half runs $21–$35/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 61% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Maquoketa, IA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Iowa as a whole we're tracking 38 other active welding openings from 33 employers. Browse welding jobs across Iowa.
The most active employers in Iowa at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Army National Guard Units (3), Cushman & Wakefield (2), and Oshkosh Corporation (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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.
See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Experienced MIG/TIG Welder & Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.