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Turner Envirologic

Lead Fabricator

Location

Deerfield Beach, FL

Wage

$26 – $28/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG WeldingStick WeldingAWS ORAPI
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Posted on October 13, 2026

Job Description

Overview

A 45-year-old builder of industrial and power plant emission control systems seeks a highly skilled and motivated Lead Fabricator to head a team of fabricators and welders. In this role, you will balance hands-on expert fabrication with team leadership, responsible for interpreting complex blueprints and ensuring project quality standards and deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the daily workflow of your team to ensure assignments are completed safely, accurately, and on schedule.
  • Perform advanced cutting, shaping, fitting, and welding of metal components using MIG, TIG, and stick welding techniques.
  • Read, interpret, and convert complex structural blueprints, engineering drawings, and CAD designs into finished products.
  • Inspect finished workpieces to ensure exact compliance with specifications, tolerances, and quality standards.
  • Guide, train, and mentor junior fabricators and welders on safety practices and advanced fabrication techniques.
  • Operate and maintain shop machinery, including brake presses, shears, CNC plasma cutters, and saws.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of structural or custom metal fabrication experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
  • Exceptional proficiency in reading blueprints, geometric dimensioning, and tolerancing (GD&T).
  • Proven experience operating heavy fabrication machinery safely.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and time-management skills.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and stand for extended periods.
  • Active certifications (AWS or equivalent) in MIG and TIG welding are highly preferred.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Deerfield Beach, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 130 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 46% 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 Deerfield Beach, FL

Deerfield Beach, FL currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 273 other active welding openings from 162 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Deerfield Beach, or widen the search to Florida.

Turner Envirologic currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (12), BAE Systems (11), and Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $32/hr, Cape Canaveral at $29/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. 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. 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.

See all lead 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. Lead Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.