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Aries Industries

Welder and Metal Fabricator

Location

Waukesha, WI

Wage

$27 – $32/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

TIG Welding
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Posted on October 6, 2026

Job Description

Overview

We are a growth-oriented technical business that focuses on our employees and offers a place where you can make a difference every day. We make innovative technology that helps make our communities safer.

Responsibilities

  • Install and move machinery and equipment on and in trucks and trailers.
  • Perform all production welding and torch cutting required for fabrication and installations.
  • Read and interpret engineering drawings and blueprints.
  • Determine materials requirements and task sequences from engineering drawings.
  • Use measuring devices to cut and prepare raw materials to required specifications.
  • Layout and examine metal stock or work pieces to ensure specifications are met.
  • Set up and operate fabricating machines to bend, cut, form, punch, drill or assemble metal components.
  • Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits following blueprints and layout specifications.
  • Operate various welding, soldering, or brazing equipment to assemble equipment.
  • Align and fit parts according to specifications using various tools.
  • Move, assemble, and install equipment.
  • Install generators and fabricate vehicles to accommodate customer specifications.
  • Follow all 5S/LEAN manufacturing requirements and safety policies.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent with welding/fabrication related courses.
  • Three to five years of related experience.
  • Ability to operate various equipment including welding equipment, forklift, hoists, and hand tools.
  • Broad knowledge of mechanics, metal properties, welding techniques, and general metalwork procedures.
  • Five to ten years of welding/fabrication experience in a job shop environment.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as layouts, blueprints, sketches, and manufacturing instructions.
  • Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, and circumference.
  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
  • Problem-solving skills in situations with limited standardization.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Waukesha, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $24/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Wisconsin — toward the top of a $20–$25/hr middle band drawn from 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 91% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Waukesha, WI

Waukesha, WI currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 148 other active welding openings from 97 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Waukesha, or widen the search to 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.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marinette at $32/hr and Milwaukee at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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 and Metal Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.