Welder 1
Location
Hutchinson, KS
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 21, 2026
Location
Hutchinson, KS
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 21, 2026
Watts is a company dedicated to providing safe, clean water for the world through innovative and sustainable water solutions. The Welder 1 position involves fabricating components for boilers and boiler room equipment, ensuring quality and safety standards are met.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Kansas currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$34/hr across 8 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Hutchinson, KS is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Kansas as a whole we're tracking 23 other active welding openings from 18 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Kansas.
Watts Water Technologies currently has 1 other opening live in Kansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Kansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Schuff Steel (2), Boeing (2), and Examinetics (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
This posting calls for MIG and Stick 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder 1 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.