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Overview

Ascentec Engineering is hiring a TIG Welder to join their team, responsible for TIG welding high purity Aluminum Semiconductor parts with a focus on safety, accuracy, and timeliness in a machine shop environment.

Responsibilities

  • Create quality welds according to CAD prints.
  • Inspect welds for accuracy, robustness, and workmanship standards.
  • Prepare product to be welded by grinding, drilling, milling, tapping and cutting steel/aluminum parts.
  • Change wire, tanks and maintain welding equipment as needed.
  • Responsible for the proper packaging, identifying, and moving of all finished products to the proper location.
  • Ensure all equipment is properly set-up and used in a safe manner and that all safety devices are in use.
  • Perform first piece inspections as well as all subsequent inspections as required by internal and customer standards.
  • Perform simple maintenance and repairs as required.
  • Cross-train as back-up in other areas of the manufacturing plant.
  • Ensure proper and accurate entry into the time and attendance system.

Requirements

  • Strong preference for candidates with experience welding Semiconductor showerheads and pedestals components.
  • 4-5 years of Aluminum welding experience preferred.
  • Good mathematical ability and the ability to read and interpret blueprints.
  • Ability to operate precision measuring devices such as calipers and micrometers.
  • Experience with a variety of metals including stainless steel, titanium, and aluminum is preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Weekend Day Shift: Friday through Sunday, 5 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
  • This position is on site and not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
  • Must be able to pass a drug screen and criminal background check prior to employment.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Tualatin, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Oregon, whose middle half runs $26–$35/hr across 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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 Tualatin, OR

Tualatin, OR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 46 other active welding openings from 26 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

Ascentec Engineering, LLC currently has 1 other opening live in Oregon, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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 $33/hr and Redmond at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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