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Green PNW

Shop Welder/Fabricator - Competitive Pay, Great Environment

Location

Lake Oswego, OR

Wage

$22 – $30/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on October 13, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Green PNW is a small, locally owned company accepting applications for full-time welders and fabricators to build metal products for the refuse industry, primarily roll-off dumpsters and waste container bins. The position offers a flexible schedule and opportunities for advancement.

Responsibilities

  • Weld, fabricate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to production.
  • Maintain welding equipment.
  • Read prints, layout, fit-up, welding, quality control.
  • Operate other shop equipment such as grinder, saw, forklift, crane, and plasma torch.

Requirements

  • Experience in MIG/GMAW welding, particularly with spray arc mig process averaging 550-700 IPM.
  • Detail oriented and able to read shop drawings.
  • Self-starter, able to work off of little to no drawings and achieve desired results with verbal directions.
  • Fitter/fabricator experience or heavy industrial fabrication experience is a plus.
  • Ability to organize work plan and communicate effectively with other fabrication personnel.
  • Maintain quality control and practice effective time management techniques.
  • Understand manufacturing methods and techniques.

Additional Information

  • Flexible schedule with ability to choose own hours, M-F from 6:00 AM to ~ 4:30 PM.
  • Overtime available.
  • Employee benefits available after 90 day probationary period.
  • Strong opportunities for advancement.
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How this job compares in Lake Oswego, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $29/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Oregon, where the middle half runs $26–$33/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% 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 Lake Oswego, OR

Lake Oswego, OR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 60 other active welding openings from 39 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

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

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (10), 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.

See all welder fabricator 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. Shop Welder/Fabricator - Competitive Pay, Great Environment figures were last recalculated when this page was built.