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Job Description

Overview

The Fitter Welder position involves selecting fabrication equipment, planning layouts, and performing welding procedures during the day shift from 5:00 AM to 3:30 PM. Candidates should have a safety-first attitude and experience in a heavy manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Selects fabrication equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding procedures.
  • Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds parts to secure in position for welding.
  • Sets up equipment and welds parts using Arc, Gas-Shielded Arc, or Gas Welding equipment.
  • May assemble parts by bolting.
  • Repairs products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping and reassembling parts.
  • Cleans pole and welds as required.
  • Accountable for essential tools and equipment, maintaining them as needed.
  • Adheres to state and federal law, Company ISO Quality Program, policies, and Safety and Environmental Regulations.
  • May perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • One or more years of related welding experience.
  • Experience working in a heavy manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to pass welding pre-employment test.
  • Read and interpret engineering drawings and blueprints.
  • Must be able to use and read welding measuring devices.
  • Must be able to make repair welds using fabrication equipment.
  • Pass drug screening and background check.
  • Must be adaptable to a changing work environment.

Additional Information

  • Day shift from 5:00 AM to 3:30 PM.
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How this job compares in Oakhurst, OK

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Oklahoma, whose middle half runs $21–$29/hr across 65 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 34% 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 Oakhurst, OK

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Oakhurst, OK, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 104 other active welding openings from 64 employers. Browse welding jobs across Oklahoma.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are American StaffCorp Job Board (7), Aerotek (6), and HireCall (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Catoosa at $28/hr, Tulsa at $26/hr, and Claremore at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Oakhurst, OK

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fitter Welder_Career _ Day Shift 5:00AM-3:30PM figures were last recalculated when this page was built.