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Overview

Under direct supervision, the Welder 1 performs simple to complex welding applications on various types of trailers and metal components. The role involves visual inspections, reading blueprints, and supporting the team in troubleshooting welding issues while adhering to quality and safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Perform work in a professional and safe manner, reporting unsafe work practices.
  • Learn and understand layout, assembly, and welding procedures.
  • Complete and understand reports including scrap, safety, quality, work orders, and inventory.
  • Bolt, clamp, and tack-weld parts to secure them for welding.
  • Assemble parts by bolting as needed.
  • Perform constant bending, stooping, reaching, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
  • Learn techniques for repairing products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, cutting, and reassembling parts.
  • Use or learn the proper use of fabrication equipment such as plasma cutters and cutting torches.
  • Clean and quality check all welds and know how to run all welding equipment.
  • Learn to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve welding problems.
  • Adhere to the Company’s Quality Programs and procedures, policies, and Safety and Environmental Regulations.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or G.E.D Equivalent.
  • Preferred technical education courses from vocational and technical institutes or welding training through the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • Strong understanding of interpreting and using blueprints, welding specifications, and procedures.
  • Ability to use and read welding measuring devices including squares, levels, and tape measures.
  • Ability to take and follow written and oral instructions.
  • Ability to communicate with supervision and team members regarding job functions.
  • Ability to make repair welds using fabrication equipment including cutting torches and grinders.
  • Basic math skills for calculating material fabrication.
  • Capable of learning the proper use of fabrication support equipment.
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How this job compares in Madill, OK

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Oklahoma currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$30/hr across 65 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 Madill, OK

Madill, OK is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 115 other active welding openings from 69 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Oklahoma.

Big Tex Trailers currently has 2 other openings live in Oklahoma, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Alfa Laval (8), Hayden Industrial (5), and Chart Industries, Inc. (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Catoosa at $29/hr, Tulsa at $27/hr, and Claremore at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Welder 1 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.