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Job Description

Overview

Kupferer Brothers Iron Works is a St. Louis steel fabricator, in business for over 75 years. They are hiring experienced shop ironworkers and welder/fitters for their plant, focusing on structural and ornamental steel fabrication.

Responsibilities

  • Fit and weld structural and ornamental steel
  • Operate or assist with automated processing equipment
  • Operate standard fabrication equipment including forklifts and overhead cranes
  • Stack and handle materials
  • Keep work areas clean

Requirements

  • 3+ years shop ironwork and/or production welding experience
  • Pass a fillet weld certification test
  • Read weld symbols and assemble/weld from detailed drawings
  • Working knowledge of MIG welding
  • Ability to stand, lift, and work in a production shop all day
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States
  • Pass a pre-employment physical and drug screen
  • Welding hood and steel-toed boots

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Full-time, union shop position
  • Starting pay is $27.50 per hour for qualified applicants
  • Typical work weeks are 40-50 hours with weekly pay
  • Work location is 8701 Grant Road, St. Louis MO 63123, in person

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in St. Louis, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri — toward the top of a $23–$28/hr middle band drawn from 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 74% 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 St. Louis, MO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in St. Louis, 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.

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.

See all structural welder 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. Shop Ironworker / Structural Steel Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.