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Job Description

Overview

PFlow Industries is hiring 4 Welders to join their team. They are looking for individuals with MIG welding experience who can turn blueprints into products.

Responsibilities

  • MIG welding on mild steel, ranging from 20 gauge to 1-inch thickness.
  • Use metal finishing tools such as grinders, abrasives, and other hand tools to achieve high finish standards.
  • Operate cranes, positioners, magnets, and fixtures for positioning and securing workpieces.
  • Layout, cut, punch, and drill materials for fabrication.
  • Inspect products for defects and ensure quality standards.
  • Handle and fabricate steel materials, including tubes, angles, and channels (16 gauge to ½” thick).

Requirements

  • High School Diploma required.
  • Welding degree/certificate preferred.
  • 1+ years’ experience as a welder (heavy manufacturing a plus).
  • Blueprint reading, math, and measuring skills.

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift
  • Full-time
  • Monday - Friday
  • Core hours: 7:00am - 3:30pm, flex schedule available.
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How this job compares in Milwaukee, WI

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Wisconsin currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$29/hr across 93 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 Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee, WI currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 149 other active welding openings from 99 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Milwaukee, or widen the search to Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (12), Staff on Site (9), and API Heat Transfer (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marinette at $32/hr and Milwaukee at $25/hr. Milwaukee is among them.

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. 1ST SHIFT MIG WELDERS WANTED figures were last recalculated when this page was built.