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Job Description

Overview

This position is located at the Tooele Army Depot and serves as a Welder, performing welding duties using electric, oxyacetylene, and/or inert gas-shielded welding processes.

Responsibilities

  • Performs welding duties using electric, oxyacetylene, and/or inert gas-shielded welding processes.
  • Utilizes templates, jigs, blueprints, MIL Standards, and other guides to repair, modify, and/or fabricate metal items for all types of equipment.
  • Designs and fabricates special tools and fixtures to hold work securely in place to resist welding stresses and facilitate quality welding.
  • Installs fabricated sheet metal components and makes minor repairs in MILVAN's.
  • Interprets blueprints, drawings, sketches, specifications, etc.
  • Inspects containers, and arranges for major equipment and spare parts required in the repair of containers.
  • Inspects all MILVAN or containers received and shipped at Tooele, including containers loaded with ammunition.
  • Operates container handling equipment capable of lifting up to 99,000 pounds as high as 48 feet.
  • Operates forklifts capable of lifting up to 15,000 pounds to load, unload, stack, unstack, warehouse, and move boxes, crates, packages, pallets, or loose items.
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How this job compares in Tooele Army Depot, UT

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Utah — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 65% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Tooele Army Depot, UT

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Tooele Army Depot, UT, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Utah as a whole we're tracking 52 other active welding openings from 43 employers. Browse welding jobs across Utah.

The most active employers in Utah at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Complex Fabricators Inc (4), EZARC (2), and Stadler (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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