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Louis Industries

Robotic Welder Operator - 1st shift

Location

Paynesville, MN

Wage

$26 – $30/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on October 6, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The Robotic Welder Operator supports manufacturing operations by producing quality welded assemblies using MIG welding and fabrication equipment. This role involves working from blueprints and instructions to fixture, tack, and weld steel assemblies while ensuring safety and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Load parts into robotic welding fixtures and secure them properly.
  • Start and monitor robotic welding programs.
  • Inspect welded parts for quality and consistency.
  • Make minor robot program adjustments such as touch-ups or position edits.
  • Perform light touch-up welding when needed.
  • Set weld parameters such as voltage and wire speed.
  • Maintain robotic welding cells and keep equipment organized and efficient.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • 1+ years welding experience OR welding technical school training
  • Ability to read blueprints and follow work instructions
  • Ability to safely operate welding and fabrication equipment
  • Basic math and measuring skills
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Comfortable using computers and production software
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs occasionally
  • Willingness to learn robotic welding systems

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Paynesville, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $25–$31/hr across 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 53% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Paynesville, MN

Paynesville, MN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 91 other active welding openings from 63 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Paynesville, or widen the search to Minnesota.

Louis Industries currently has 2 other openings live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN (7), Award Staffing (3), and U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC (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 robotic 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. Robotic Welder Operator - 1st shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.