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Job Description

Overview

Great Lakes Skilled Trades is a fast-growing skilled labor contractor in the Midwest, connecting top talent with great job opportunities. We have immediate openings and are looking for quality craftsmen who want steady work and career growth.

Responsibilities

  • Work on commercial pre-engineered metal buildings.
  • Perform rigging, shake outs, and use crane signals.
  • Connect and bolt beams, purlins, and girders.
  • Install siding, roofing, and insulation.
  • Complete other tasks as appointed by the foreman.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience in PEMB.
  • Possess basic hand tools.
  • Have a driver’s license and reliable transportation.
  • Understand safety on construction sites.
  • Must be reliable and able to take direction.

Benefits

  • Consistent work
  • Competitive pay
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Apply online at https://www.greatlakesskilledtrades.com/ or call our office at (616) 591-9300 today!

Benefits

Consistent work
Competitive pay
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Grand Rapids, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Michigan, whose middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 59 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 58% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Grand Rapids, MI

Grand Rapids, MI currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 87 other active welding openings from 66 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Grand Rapids, or widen the search to Michigan.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Detroit, MI (7), Qualified Staffing (6), and Fabcon Precast (3). 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. Pre-engineered Ironworker figures were last recalculated when this page was built.