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Job Description

Overview

A metal fabrication shop is seeking welders and fitters with a preference for candidates who have 3 years of experience and can read blueprints. Dependability and the ability to follow instructions are essential.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding and fitting tasks in a metal fabrication shop.
  • Read and understand blueprints.
  • Safely use hand tools such as grinders, sanders, and drills.

Requirements

  • 3 years of experience preferred.
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints.
  • Dependable and able to follow instructions.
  • Overhead crane experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Paid Holidays

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is 5:00AM - 1:30PM, Monday through Friday.

Benefits

Medical
Paid Holidays
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How this job compares in Portland, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Portland, OR, whose middle half runs $29–$39/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

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 $33/hr and Redmond at $26/hr. Portland is among them.

Similar openings near Portland, OR

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