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Overview

Come join our team at Pacific Building Systems and be a part of a competitive growing business. As a leading steel building manufacturer in the Willamette valley, we have been providing quality buildings since 1962.

Responsibilities

  • Fit I beam, columns, and trusses.
  • Analyze, read, and interpret blueprints.
  • Layout and secure the appropriate parts according to blueprints by tacking and/or welding.

Requirements

  • Knowledge in GMAW and plasma cutting.
  • Proficient with a tape measure.
  • Able to work Monday through Friday consistently and willing to work overtime when required.
  • Able to accomplish daily and weekly deadlines.
  • Have a positive team-driven attitude.
  • Able to lift 50lbs minimum on a regular basis.
  • Stand for 8+ hours daily.
  • Able to pass a 30-45 minute in shop fit-up test.
  • All candidates have to pass a drug screen.
  • Certified welder for GMAW (Spray) and able to pass weld test.
  • Proficient in blueprint reading.
  • Proficient with a plasma torch.
  • Experience in a similar industry is preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Day shift is Monday-Friday from 6am to 2:30pm.
  • Swing shift is Monday-Thursday (4-10's) from 2pm to 12:30am.
  • Swing shift comes with an additional $2.00 per hour differential pay.
  • Summer months are likely to include mandatory overtime up to and including 55 hours in a single work week.
  • Work Location: In person.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $29/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Oregon, where the middle half runs $28–$33/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Woodburn, OR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Woodburn, OR, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 56 other active welding openings from 37 employers. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (8), AAON (3), and Skyline Sheet Metal, Inc (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 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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