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Job Description

Overview

AGI is a global food-based infrastructure company with over 4,200 employees, seeking experienced Mig Welders for straight day shift openings in Marshall, IL. The position involves performing various welding functions and requires familiarity with different types of welding equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Reads and interprets blueprints and machine drawings to determine specific welding requirements.
  • Connects cables from welding unit to obtain amperage, voltage, slope, and pulse as specified by engineering.
  • Manually guides electrode or gun along weld line, maintaining length of arc and speed of movement to form specified depth of fusion and bead.
  • Welds in flat, horizontal, vertical or overhead positions.
  • Examines weld for bead size and other specifications.
  • Selects torch, torch tip, filler rod and flux according to welding chart specifications or type and thickness of material.

Requirements

  • High School Degree or equivalent.
  • Six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
  • Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
  • Be able to read and interpret blueprints.
  • Must be able to read a tape measure.
  • Ability to perform simple shop math, convert decimals to fractional equivalents.
  • Ability to use weld fillet gauges to ensure proper weld size and interpret tolerances.
  • Must be able to identify and measure material.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life and AD&D
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Voluntary Life
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Spending Accounts
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Straight day shift openings Monday through Friday.
  • Location: Marshall, IL, USA.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life and AD&D
Short- and Long-Term Disability
Voluntary Life
Employee Assistance Program
Spending Accounts
401k
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How this job compares in Marshall, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 34% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 249 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 3% 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.

The local market in Marshall, IL

Marshall, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 348 other active welding openings from 210 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

AGI - Ag Growth International currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (12), and S&C Electric Company (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Addison at $35/hr, and Skokie at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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