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Job Description

Overview

Olympia Provisions is seeking a welder with moderate to advanced welding experience to assist with a project at their Portland facility, specifically welding stainless steel. The project is expected to take approximately 6–12 hours, with potential for future work.

Requirements

  • Moderate to advanced welding and fabrication experience
  • Experience welding stainless steel
  • Ability to work cleanly, safely, and with great attention to detail
  • Capability to follow direction and work efficiently
  • Pride in precise, high-quality work
  • Willingness to provide a completed W-9 for payment

Additional Information

  • Initial project duration is approximately 6–12 hours
  • All work will be completed in-house at the shop under the direction of the Head of Maintenance
  • A fully equipped shop will be provided with all necessary equipment and tools

Compensation

  • Pay: $35/hour
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR, whose middle half runs $29–$38/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% 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 Portland, OR

We're tracking 18 other active welding openings in Portland, OR right now, from 8 different employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 45 other active welding openings from 25 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Portland, or widen the search to Oregon.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (11), Skyline Sheet Metal, Inc (4), and AAON (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oregon, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Portland at $32/hr and Redmond at $26/hr. Portland is among them.

Similar openings near Portland, OR

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder Needed for Small Project – 6–12 Hours Work figures were last recalculated when this page was built.