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Overview

The Welding Fabricator role involves using various welding techniques and equipment to fabricate and assemble metal components and systems. The position requires skills in welding, cutting, and metal fabrication for various applications including pipe systems and sheet metal products.

Responsibilities

  • Use hand welding and flame-cutting equipment to weld and cut metal components.
  • Perform welding jobs using mig, tig, and arc welding techniques.
  • Layout, assemble, install, and maintain pipe systems and related equipment.
  • Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment.
  • Set up and operate fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal.
  • Shape metal using hammers and operate soldering and welding equipment.
  • Inspect, assemble, and smooth seams and joints of sheet metal parts.
  • Solder components to assemble fabricated metal products.
  • Fabricate, layout, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.
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How this job compares in North Chelmsford, MA

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts, where the middle half runs $27–$31/hr across 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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 North Chelmsford, MA

North Chelmsford, MA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 30 other active welding openings from 24 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.

Welding Shop in Boston, MA currently has 5 other openings live in Massachusetts, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Boston, MA (5), World Class Machine Shop (2), and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (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 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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.