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

Additional Information

  • Weekly paycheck.
  • Safe, clean, and bright work environment.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Hayti, SD

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across South Dakota currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$29/hr across 38 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Hayti, SD

Hayti, SD is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 57 other active welding openings from 40 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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 (4), 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.

Within South Dakota, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Rapid City at $43/hr, Freeman at $27/hr, and Sioux Falls at $20/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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.