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Job Description

Overview

Join a stable, well-established manufacturing team where your metal fabrication skills directly support high-quality production for a diverse customer base. This hands-on role in a busy fabrication shop offers the chance to work with modern equipment, sharpen your technical abilities, and contribute to a safe, efficient operation.

Responsibilities

  • Operate fabrication machinery including press brakes, shears, and rollers to form and cut metal components according to specifications.
  • Interpret blueprints, technical drawings, and work orders to determine material requirements, dimensions, and fabrication methods.
  • Perform accurate measurement, layout, and marking of materials to ensure precision cutting and forming.
  • Use hand and power tools for cutting, grinding, drilling, and finishing metal parts to required tolerances.
  • Set up, adjust, and maintain fabrication equipment to support consistent, high-quality output.
  • Collaborate with team members and supervisors to coordinate workflow, resolve production issues, and meet daily targets.
  • Inspect completed parts for accuracy, quality, and compliance with specifications, making adjustments as needed.
  • Follow all safety procedures, use appropriate PPE, and maintain a clean, organized work area.
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How this job compares in Florence, KY

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky, where the middle half runs $26–$36/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 27% 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 Florence, KY

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Florence, KY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 19 other active welding openings from 15 employers. Browse welding jobs across Kentucky.

The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SU Solutions (3), Hendrickson (2), and Energy Jobline ZR (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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. Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.