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Overview

We are looking for a Fabricator / Welder who can get weld certified and follow standards for assembling, welding, and finishing parts. The role requires effective communication with the shop manager and assisting others as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Get weld certified.
  • Set up parts per paperwork and process per standards.
  • Sign into projects by the number on your work order.
  • Assemble, weld and finish using standard fabrication methods.
  • Verify dimensions and finish are within spec.
  • Communicate status with shop manager.
  • Assist others as needed.

Requirements

  • Team player.
  • Good work ethic.
  • Critical thinking and math skills.
  • Communicate well with others.
  • Achieves time frames for proper work output.
  • Meets tolerances.
  • Read and interpret engineering prints.
  • Read a tape and understand tolerances, angles, and dimensions.

Benefits

  • Full time employment
  • Day Shift
  • Medical and Dental
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Must be able to bend at the waist, kneel, and reach objects as necessary.
  • Lift and move up to 75 pounds.
  • Weld with Mig and Tig.
  • Safely use hand tools including welders, grinders, sanders, drills, etc.
  • Overtime work is possible when available.
  • Must send resume.

Benefits

Full time employment
Day Shift
Medical and Dental
PTO
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 15% below the $34/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR, where the middle half runs $32–$39/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% 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 Portland, OR

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in Portland, OR right now, from 15 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 60 other active welding openings from 39 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Portland, or widen the search to Oregon.

Welding Shop in Portland, OR currently has 9 other openings 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 (9), 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 $34/hr and Redmond at $26/hr. Portland is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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. FABRICATOR / WELDER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.