Job Description

Overview

KMC Stampings is a premier metal fabricator with over 115 years of experience in southeastern WI, offering a family feel and a safe environment focused on hands-on training opportunities for employees through a progressive training program.

Responsibilities

  • Safely and efficiently operate resistance welding and assembly equipment to make parts accurately to print.
  • Perform packaging duties and basic material handling to move materials and tooling within the department.
  • Train and provide guidance to new Weld Equipment Operators.
  • Operate Resistance Welders & Pemserter and perform manual assembly to meet standard rates.
  • Adhere to defined quality procedures to ensure quality parts using metrology equipment.
  • Assist in the machine setup process as necessary.
  • Accurately record labor, inventory, and job data in the ERP system.
  • Perform basic material handling duties using carts and pallet jacks.
  • Maintain equipment through weekly preventative maintenance tasks and submit maintenance work orders.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED and three to six months prior relevant manufacturing experience and/or training.
  • Ability to count, add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
  • Ability to read and comprehend instructions, specifications, and memos.
  • Effective communication skills with customers and employees.
  • Ability to utilize a computer and input data.
  • Ability to interpret part prints.
  • Ability to accurately measure a manufactured part using basic metrology equipment.
  • Regularly required to use hands, occasionally sit and talk, frequently hear, walk, and continuously stand and reach.
  • Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds and occasionally push and/or pull material.
  • Specific vision abilities required include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
  • Continuously exposed to manufacturing noise.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 4 Day Work Week with a 3 Day Weekend

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Port Washington, WI

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Wisconsin currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$30/hr across 107 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 Port Washington, WI

Port Washington, WI currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 165 other active welding openings from 102 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Port Washington, or widen the search to Wisconsin.

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

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (16), Staff on Site (9), and Gpac (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marinette at $32/hr, Waukesha at $30/hr, and Milwaukee at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Port Washington, WI

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Weld Equipment Setup Operator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.