Job Description

Overview

Laser North, a laser cutting and fabrication specialist, seeks full-time, skilled Welders to join their team in Hayti, South Dakota. As a Welder, you’ll play a vital role in fitting and welding components to produce top-quality products with precision and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain effective welding operations to meet customer demands and provide on-time delivery.
  • Fabricate complex weldments in accordance with customer requirements and specifications.
  • Take ownership of organizing and cleaning specified work area in the welding department.
  • Take the initiative to help other production areas as needed.
  • Communicate with the Leadership Team when necessary.

Requirements

  • Self-motivation and an excellent work ethic are required.
  • 1 or more years of professional welding experience preferred.
  • Possess a welding certification, or the ability to become AWS certified.
  • Ability to read and understand welding blueprints.
  • Experience utilizing precise measuring equipment.
  • Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities are essential.
  • Ability to balance a sense of urgency while maintaining the highest level of safety, quality and efficiency.
  • Adhere to business rules, safe work practices, and proper lifting techniques is required.

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Hayti, SD

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across South Dakota, whose middle half runs $23–$28/hr across 30 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% 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 Hayti, SD

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Hayti, SD, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 44 other active welding openings from 30 employers. Browse welding jobs across South Dakota.

The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Maguire (5), Vermeer Corporation (3), and Gpac (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Hayti, SD

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.