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Job Description

Overview

U-Haul Company is seeking a resourceful MIG Welder to join its manufacturing team, where welders will utilize their skills to weld trucks, trailers, and support equipment for the largest do-it-yourself moving company in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Perform all-position MIG welding to join steel and aluminum metals from 1/16" to 1" thick plate.
  • Interpret and carry out work orders, blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions.
  • Clamp parts into jigs or holding fixtures.
  • Clean burrs, spatter, and weld flux from assemblies.
  • Hand-count material for inventory purposes.
  • Wear and maintain protective clothing and equipment including a welding helmet, gloves, cotton clothing, safety glasses, and steel-toe safety shoes.
  • Follow all safety practices during assembly and production operations and ensure that work areas are maintained in a safe, clean, and orderly manner.

Requirements

  • Successfully complete a plant-administered welding test.
  • Regular attendance is essential.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • The work involves moderate risks or discomforts which require special safety precautions.
  • Physical exertion includes long periods both indoors and outdoors while remaining stationary, traversing spaces, repositioning to reach and use tools, and moving a minimum of 50 lbs assisted or unassisted.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Fairless Hills, PA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Pennsylvania currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$35/hr across 134 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 Fairless Hills, PA

Fairless Hills, PA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 277 other active welding openings from 179 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Fairless Hills, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

U-Haul currently has 2 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TradeWorx (7), Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) (7), and Crash Champions (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $35/hr and York at $25/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.

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