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Job Description

Overview

Express Employment Professionals is seeking experienced MIG Welders for a long-term opportunity with a local sheet metal contractor in Watseka, IL. The position involves setting up and operating welding equipment in a production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and operate welding equipment safely
  • Perform MIG welding in a production environment
  • Read route sheets and verify production counts
  • Complete required first-piece, interval, and final-piece inspections
  • Perform hourly weld tests
  • Accurately document completed work orders
  • Identify and report faulty operations to supervision

Requirements

  • Previous welding experience
  • Ability to pass a weld test
  • Comfortable working a hands-on, physical position
  • Someone looking for a long-term opportunity to grow

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-term Disability
  • Long-term Disability
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Watseka, Illinois
  • Schedule: Monday-Saturday | 6:00 AM-4:30 PM
  • Opportunity: Evaluation-to-hire after 720 hours, based on attendance and performance

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Life Insurance
Short-term Disability
Long-term Disability
401k
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How this job compares in Watseka, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $26–$39/hr across 194 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% 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 Watseka, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Watseka, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 150 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (11), and S&C Electric Company (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $39/hr, Skokie at $35/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/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 MIG 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. Mig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.