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Overview

The Structural Welder position involves performing various welding processes on structural steel, sheet metal, and pipe components, while ensuring adherence to safety procedures and maintaining a clean work area.

Responsibilities

  • Perform a variety of welding processes on structural steel, sheet metal, and pipe components.
  • Fabricate, fit, and assemble steel components per blueprints and weld symbols.
  • Read and interpret fabrication drawings, weld symbols, and industry standards.
  • Use hand tools, power tools, and fabrication equipment including press brakes, saws, drills, and grinders.
  • Measure and inspect work using tape measures, calipers, squares, and levels to ensure accuracy.
  • Operate overhead cranes and forklifts to move materials safely and efficiently.
  • Follow all safety procedures and PPE requirements at all times.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED required.
  • 2+ years of structural steel welding and fabrication experience preferred.
  • Strong welding skills.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, fabrication drawings, and weld symbols.
  • Experience with structural steel fabrication processes including cutting, fitting, and prep.
  • Proficient with measurement tools and basic math.
  • Familiarity with fabrication equipment and shop tools.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Dependable, safety-focused, and detail-oriented.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Frequent standing, bending, squatting, and lifting.
  • Ability to work indoors and outdoors in varying conditions.
  • Regular use of hand tools, grinders, and welding equipment.
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How this job compares in Waunakee, WI

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Wisconsin currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$28/hr across 74 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 Waunakee, WI

Waunakee, WI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 124 other active welding openings from 80 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (12), Staff on Site (9), and API Heat Transfer (6). 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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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.