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Overview

As an Advanced Welder at Stryker, you will support the production of precision components used in life-saving medical technologies. This role combines advanced manual welding, machining support, and troubleshooting to ensure high-quality output in a regulated manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform manual MIG and TIG welding to manufacture parts to specification
  • Operate and support fabrication equipment, including robotic welding (Level 2) and CNC processes
  • Set up and run production while maintaining quality, safety, and efficiency standards
  • Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, and work instructions to produce and repair parts
  • Conduct inspections using calipers, angle gauges, micrometers, and other measuring tools
  • Troubleshoot equipment, process issues, and part defects to minimize downtime
  • Perform preventative maintenance, cleaning, and minor equipment repairs
  • Ensure compliance with Stryker Quality Systems (QSR/ISO), policies, and production goals
  • Maintain accurate documentation and record-keeping in line with company standards
  • Support and lead continuous improvement initiatives and problem-solving activities
  • Promote a positive team environment, accountability, and adherence to 6S standards

Requirements

  • Minimum of two (2) years of welding, machining, or fabrication experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Hands on experience with MIG and TIG welding
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and technical drawings
  • Quality training, including visual inspection of welds, incoming part quality, gage plan completion (preferred)
  • Ability to use height stand, calipers, micrometers, coordinate measuring system, and other inspection equipment to inspect work pieces (preferred)

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Schedule: 1st Shift - Monday - Friday 5:45 am-2:12 pm, OT required

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Portage, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Michigan — toward the top of a $22–$32/hr middle band drawn from 60 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Portage, MI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Portage, MI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 92 other active welding openings from 67 employers. Browse welding jobs across Michigan.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Qualified Staffing (8), Welding Shop in Detroit, MI (6), and General Motors (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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.

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