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Overview

Join Life Fitness/Hammer Strength in Owatonna, MN as a MIG Welder on our 3rd Shift. You'll manufacture MIG-welded assemblies to engineering standards while meeting safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

Responsibilities

  • Manufacture MIG-welded assemblies to engineering standards.
  • Earn an additional $2.00 per hour for 3rd shift hours worked.
  • Work effectively independently and as part of a team.
  • Perform welding, grinding, and repair of welded assemblies on raw steel.
  • Set up welding equipment, fixtures, and parameters for each job.
  • Interpret blueprints, weld symbols, specifications, and work instructions.
  • Produce quality weldments while meeting required production rates.
  • Inspect completed welds for quality and structural integrity.
  • Enter completed work orders into the production tracking system.
  • Communicate safety, production, or quality issues to your supervisor.
  • Safely operate hoists and material-handling equipment to position parts.
  • Follow all company safety policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • 0-2 years of production welding experience.
  • Knowledge of MIG welding equipment setup and operation.
  • Experience using oxy-acetylene torches, grinders, sanders, and hand tools.
  • Successful completion of a GMAW weld test.
  • Ability to read, understand, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and production documentation in English.
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, weld symbols, and manufacturing specifications.
  • Technical school weld certificate.
  • Lift up to 35 lbs.
  • Operate high-RPM air-powered metal finishing tools.
  • Reaching and repetitive motion.
  • Exposure to dust, vibration, welding fumes, and infrared/ultraviolet light.
  • Noisy environment.
  • Required PPE includes safety glasses, welding helmet, gloves, safety shoes, ear protection, and protective clothing.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Four-day workweek: Monday through Thursday, 7:30 PM-6:00 AM.
  • Overtime opportunities available.
  • Free access to our on-site fitness center.
  • Eligibility for our Production Bonus Plan.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Owatonna, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $25–$30/hr across 59 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% 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 Owatonna, MN

Owatonna, MN is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 81 other active welding openings from 57 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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), Award Staffing (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.

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.

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