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Overview

The Structural Welder position involves following customer specifications and engineering drawings to assemble and weld components, primarily using MIG and gas welding techniques. This full-time role is based in Tea, SD, and offers a variety of benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Responsibilities

  • Follow customer specifications and engineering drawings to gather materials and weld components.
  • Set up equipment and weld parts together using MIG, gas welding, and arc welding processes.
  • Install specialized parts and components on enclosures and bases using cutting, welding, and grinding tools.
  • Examine welds for appropriate size, quality, and precision.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and rewelding as needed.
  • Operate crane or lifting equipment to move and position components.
  • Work with engineering staff to clarify information and obtain design changes.
  • Maintain a clean and orderly work area and follow established safety guidelines.
  • Perform additional duties as requested.

Benefits

  • Great pay and benefits
  • Over time opportunities
  • Tool and boot allowance
  • Safe working environment
  • Advancement opportunities
  • Year-round work
  • Team environment
  • Work at the same location each day
  • On site warehouse
  • Majority of work is indoors and winter climate controlled
  • Exposure to projects and customers from around the world
  • Opportunity to travel to set up projects at customer site if desired.

Benefits

Great pay and benefits
Over time opportunities
Tool and boot allowance
Safe working environment
Advancement opportunities
Year-round work
Team environment
Work at the same location each day
On site warehouse
Majority of work is indoors and winter climate controlled
Exposure to projects and customers from around the world
Opportunity to travel to set up projects at customer site if desired
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How this job compares in Tea, SD

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across South Dakota currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$28/hr across 31 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Tea, SD

Tea, SD is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 45 other active welding openings from 31 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across South Dakota.

The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Maguire (5), Vermeer Corporation (3), and Gpac (3). 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. Structural Welder- Evening Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.