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Job Description

Overview

Join Express Employment in Wixom, MI as a GMAW Production Welder/Fabricator, where you will utilize your MIG welding skills to support production by fabricating parts and running basic machining operations.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG production welding with consistent quality and throughput
  • Fabricate and fit parts for component build-outs
  • Use basic machining techniques to prep and finish parts
  • Operate a plasma cutter and various saws as needed
  • Interpret blueprints and follow welding setups for production
  • Safely move materials; forklift operation is preferred

Requirements

  • Hands-on MIG welding experience (vocational training or equivalent on-the-job experience)
  • Comfort with basic machining and fabrication practices
  • Ability to read blueprints and follow standardized welding setups
  • Experience with plasma cutting and saws; forklift experience is a plus

Additional Information

  • Day shift, Monday–Friday: 6:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. or 6:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (with overtime when needed)
  • Location: Wixom, MI
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How this job compares in Wixom, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 26% 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 2% 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 Wixom, MI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Wixom, MI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 87 other active welding openings from 66 employers. 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.

See all manufacturing 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. GMAW Production Welder/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.