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Overview

The Ironworker position requires the ability to install pre-engineered metal buildings and perform connecting work at heights. Candidates should have safety knowledge, familiarity with hand signals, and experience with pre-engineered buildings, pole barns, metal studs, and welding is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Install pre-engineered metal buildings and perform connecting work.
  • Participate in safety training and identify job hazards.
  • Show up on time and ready to complete work.
  • Follow directions from manager, lead, or superintendent.
  • Respect self, co-workers, managers, company, contractors, and clients.
  • Take care of company-owned or rented equipment.
  • Adapt methods to complete tasks.
  • Be willing to go the extra mile for the team.

Requirements

  • Communicate effectively both in written and verbal forms.
  • Ability to use an assortment of hand tools.
  • Skill to operate a variety of machinery.
  • Gather correct tools needed for tasks.
  • Ability to work in confined spaces.
  • Work in various weather conditions.
  • Perform physically demanding work for 8+ hours a day.
  • Climb ladders and perform bending, twisting, and lifting up to 50lbs.
  • Maintain prolonged standing and walking.
  • Fulfill essential job functions in a consistent state of alertness and safety.
  • Use power tools safely and efficiently.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Vision
Dental
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Fenton, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri, where the middle half runs $23–$28/hr across 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 Fenton, MO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Fenton, MO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 55 employers. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (8), Welding Shop in Kansas City, MO (6), and Leonardo DRS (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Charles at $26/hr and Kansas City at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Fenton, MO

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Ironworker (Pre-Engineered Building Experience Preferred) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.