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Overview

D&S Manufacturing is looking to expand their Weld Department at Black River Falls, WI. They are 100% employee owned and offer competitive benefits including health insurance, a 401k plan, and a hiring bonus.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding operations on a standard and repetitive line of weldments and structures following prescribed procedures.
  • Adjust and regulate machines to obtain best possible penetration, fill, weld quality and performance.
  • Fit and position weldments using welding fixtures and jigs or without fixtures if applicable.
  • Control dimensional and alignment requirements as instructed.
  • Use basic welding fundamentals and certification in GMAW.
  • Utilize tools such as rules, squares, protractors, templates, and fixed gauges.
  • Work subject to process and final inspection and test.

Requirements

  • Completion of D&S Manufacturing Quality System ISO Procedures.
  • Completion of D&S Manufacturing Department ISO Procedures.
  • Basic Weld Training class.
  • Weld Process Test.
  • Weld Symbols Test.
  • Welder Qualification Test GM-090.
  • High school diploma or GED; or one to three months related experience and/or training.
  • Work experience or training demonstrating knowledge of welding principles and techniques.
  • One year technical college diploma or certificate in welding preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401K

Additional Information

  • 2nd Shift/Full-Time: Monday through Thursday - 3:15 pm to 1:15 am.
  • Location: Black River Falls, WI.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401K
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How this job compares in Black River Falls, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin — toward the top of a $23–$29/hr middle band drawn from 96 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Black River Falls, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Black River Falls, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 154 other active welding openings from 100 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (16), 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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.

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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. Welder - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.