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Job Description

Overview

The Welder Operator will operate steel and aluminum welding robots and support the manufacturing team at a company that produces quality products in Idaho Falls, USA.

Responsibilities

  • Operate steel and aluminum welding robots.
  • Load, unload, inspect, and prepare parts for robotic welding.
  • Perform basic weld touch-ups and repairs as required.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of welding techniques, including MIG welding.
  • Experience with or understanding of welding equipment such as MIG welders, die grinders, welding gauges, and hand tools.
  • Ability to read blueprints/prints and accurately use a measuring tape.
  • Applicant may be subject to a background check.
  • Pre-employment drug screen is required as a condition of employment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Full Time work available.
  • First Shift (Monday through Thursday from 06:00am to 04:30pm).
  • Location: Idaho Falls, ID.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Idaho Falls, ID

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 45% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Idaho, where the middle half runs $24–$35/hr across 24 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 4% 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 Idaho Falls, ID

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Idaho Falls, ID, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Idaho as a whole we're tracking 36 other active welding openings from 30 employers. Browse welding jobs across Idaho.

The most active employers in Idaho at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are MasTec Industrial, a MasTec Company (2), Phoenix Industrial, Inc., a MasTec Company (2), and Jobot (2). 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. Welder Operator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.