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Job Description

Overview

The Skilled Welder position involves reading blueprints, determining welding methods, and ensuring high-quality welds on high-temperature alloys. The role requires extensive experience in TIG welding and a strong attention to detail in a safe working environment.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints
  • Determine the appropriate method based on print and spec requirements
  • Set up components for welding according to specifications
  • Operate grinders
  • Measure and check parts using calipers and rulers
  • Visually inspect all welds
  • Maintain a safe workspace

Requirements

  • Extensive experience TIG welding of high temp alloys
  • Ability to read and interpret technical documents and drawings
  • Knowledge of relative safety standards and using protective clothing
  • Attention to detail
  • Preferred High School diploma or GED or equivalent courses and certifications

Additional Information

  • Employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds
  • Specific vision abilities required include close vision and depth perception
  • Noise level may be loud; must be able to use required PPE

Benefits

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How this job compares in Merrimac, MA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Massachusetts currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$35/hr across 20 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Merrimac, MA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Merrimac, MA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 37 other active welding openings from 28 employers. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.

Welding Shop in Boston, MA currently has 7 other openings live in Massachusetts, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Boston, MA (7), Jobot (2), and Waste Connections (2). 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 TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. SKILLED WELDER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.