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Job Description

Overview

A family-owned, local Las Vegas fabrication company is looking to hire an experienced shop welder fabricator for commercial projects in the Las Vegas area. The position offers weekly pay based on experience, with employees typically working 40 to 50 hours per week.

Responsibilities

  • Read shop drawings and understand basic welding codes.
  • Maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
  • Measure, layout, and fit fabricated parts.
  • Accept constructive criticism and collaborate with others.

Requirements

  • Reliable transportation with a Nevada Driver’s License.
  • Has an OSHA 10 Card or ability to obtain one within 45 days of hire.
  • Ability to multi-task and problem-solve quickly.
  • Ability to work full-time outdoors in varying temperatures.
  • Physical ability to climb stairs, ladders, bend, stoop, reach, lift, and carry equipment over fifty (50) pounds.
  • Welder certification in 3G GMAW (MIG) is a huge plus.
  • Experience in welding and fabrication for at least 1 year is required.
  • High school diploma or equivalent is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Eight hour day shift, Monday through Friday.
  • Optional overtime.
  • Work location is in person in Las Vegas, NV 89118.

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How this job compares in Las Vegas, NV

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 15% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Nevada, where the middle half runs $22–$35/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas, NV currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Nevada as a whole we're tracking 33 other active welding openings from 26 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Las Vegas, or widen the search to Nevada.

The most active employers in Nevada at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Las Vegas, NV (7) and FAAC Incorporated (2). 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. 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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.