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Job Description

Overview

The Welder is responsible for assembly securing and welding metal parts, reading and interpreting blueprints, and fabricating metal components according to specifications with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

  • Reads and comprehends blueprints.
  • Selects equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding from blueprints.
  • Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds parts to secure in position for welding.
  • Sets up equipment and welds parts using GMAW MIG.

Requirements

  • One year certificate from college or technical school in welding/fabrication or relevant experience.
  • Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. without assistance.
  • Ability to work from various squatting, kneeling, or bending positions.
  • Ability to work arms above head and from crawling or lying positions.
  • Ability to read, understand and carry out instructions as detailed in blueprints.
  • Ability to understand and operate all safety equipment in the area.
  • Proficient in adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division in all units of measure.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.
  • Proficient in computation of rate, ratio, and percent and its application in practical situations.
  • Education: GED/High School Diploma or Experience, Technical degree/certificate preferred.
  • Prior fabrication experience preferred.
  • 1 year or more of MIG welding experience preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Pay: From $21.45 per hour
  • Expected hours: 40.0 per week
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Disability
PTO
Life Insurance
Vision
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How this job compares in Charlotte, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Michigan, where the middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 59 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 22% 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 Charlotte, MI

Charlotte, MI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 87 other active welding openings from 66 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across 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.

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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