Job Description

Overview

Welder I is an entry-level production position in the Production department, reporting to the Production Manager. The role includes training and offers an attractive benefits package along with competitive pay based on experience and qualifications.

Responsibilities

  • Immediately notify the Production Manager of any safety issue or problem.
  • Weld components according to company, customer, and engineering drawings, blueprints, and welding specifications.
  • Primarily operate automated welding equipment and air arc systems.
  • Learn company welding processes, including the use of portable welding equipment for field welding.
  • Maintain all equipment as per manufacturer or company schedules, or as directed.
  • Assist in the development of written process documentation as required.
  • Keep production areas and work areas safe, clean and organized.
  • Make recommendations for tooling, fixturing, process requirements and/or equipment needs.
  • Safely handle parts and materials with appropriate industrial trucks, hoists, overhead cranes and associated rigging.
  • Conduct oneself in a mature, respectful and professional manner.
  • Follow all RPM policies, programs and procedures.
  • Work with manufacturing and engineering to determine welding requirements.
  • Keep Production Manager advised of usage and reorder requirements for consumables and materials.
  • Assist management in employee training.
  • Understand and accurately follow through on verbal directions.
  • Read, interpret and accurately follow through on written work directions.

Requirements

  • No prior welding experience is required.
  • Must be able to frequently lift, carry and/or position up to 50 pounds.
  • Safety glasses, non-marring steel toe boots and hearing protection required in production areas.
  • Must be able to bend and crawl, and stand on feet for hours at a time.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 8-12 hour shift depending on workload.
  • Monday to Friday normally.
  • Night Shift (Required).
  • Day Shift (Required).
  • Overnight Shift (Required).

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
PTO

How this job compares in Rapid City, 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 Rapid City, SD

Rapid City, SD currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 57 other active welding openings from 41 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Rapid City, or widen the search to South Dakota.

RPM & Associates, Inc. currently has 1 other opening live in South Dakota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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. Rapid City is among them.

Similar openings near Rapid City, 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 1 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.