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Position Title: Fitter Welder Shift: 1st Hours: 6:00am - 4:30pm Family owned since 1972, a heavy equipment manufacturer located in Milwaukee is looking for talented Welder / Fabricators to join the team. This 1st shift role comes with full benefits, overtime, and a stable workforce. We are looking for a passionate and motivated welder/fitter to become part of our team who is eager to learn and grow in our fast-paced environment. Fitter Welder Responsibilities: - Set up welding equipment including necessary adjustments to weld different parts or subassemblies. - Perform various welding operations following blueprint weld symbols - Move weldments manually, by overhead crane and secure workpiece in weld fixture or table. - Set-up and prepare surfaces to be welded and work with blueprints to verify accuracy of pre-assembled metal components to be welded. Requirements for Fitter Welder: - High school diploma or GED preferred - Minimum 1 year of welding experience - Knowledge of basic procedures of MIG welding and cutting tools - Basic math skills - Skilled in the operation of grinders and deburring equipment - Perform standard measurements using a tape measure or other measurement devices - Able to weld simple assemblies with little supervision - Able to weld flat, vertical and down - Able to read blueprints with weld symbols and specifications - Able to lift and position fabricated metal parts manually, using a crane - Able to work overtime and/or including weekends as production schedules dictate IND159

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How this job compares in Milwaukee, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 83 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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 Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee, WI currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 131 other active welding openings from 86 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Milwaukee, or widen the search to Wisconsin.

QPS Employment Group currently has 11 other openings live in Wisconsin, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (11), Staff on Site (9), and Welding Shop in Milwaukee, WI (6). 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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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.