Fabrication Welding Associate
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Wage
$17 – $20/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 28, 2026
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Wage
$17 – $20/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 28, 2026
Now hiring for a Fabrication Welding Associate
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Pay Rate: $17.00 – $20.00 per hour
Schedule: 6:00 am-2:30 pm
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Looking for Fabrication Welding Associate jobs in Cincinnati where your welding skills help build quality products? This opportunity lets you apply your craftsmanship to fabricate, join, and repair metal components while supporting safe, efficient manufacturing operations.
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What You Will Do
As a Fabrication Welding Associate you will prepare materials, set up welding equipment, perform welding operations, inspect completed welds, read blueprints, verify measurements, and help fabricate metal components according to engineering specifications. You will maintain welding equipment, follow quality standards, and support safe, efficient manufacturing operations while producing consistent, high-quality work.
A Fabrication Welding Associate helps manufacture durable metal products through professional welding and fabrication techniques. This role combines welding expertise with mechanical knowledge and careful attention to quality throughout the manufacturing process.
The Fabrication Welding Associate applies technical skills to prepare materials, complete welds, and inspect finished work while maintaining safe production practices. Strong craftsmanship supports consistent product quality and manufacturing efficiency.
This profession offers rewarding opportunities for individuals who enjoy fabrication and skilled trades.
At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Ohio, where the middle half runs $20–$26/hr across 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Cincinnati, OH right now, from 13 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 175 other active welding openings from 112 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Cincinnati, or widen the search to Ohio.
Staffmark currently has 3 other openings live in Ohio, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TP Mechanical (8), Phillips Tank & Structure (5), and Aerotek (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $30/hr, Canton at $29/hr, and Cleveland at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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.
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. Fabrication Welding Associate figures were last recalculated when this page was built.