Job Description

Overview

The Welder performs welding tasks, learns and understands project blueprints, and is responsible for fitting and welding projects as instructed. The position requires expanding welding knowledge and skills over time.

Responsibilities

  • Learn to analyze blueprints, verify dimensions, and build projects without direct supervision.
  • Ensure the accuracy of finished parts by comparing them to main samples.
  • Request Supervisor/QA verification of all dimensions prior to final welding.
  • Learn to weld Carbon & Aluminum and all types of MIG Wire.
  • Weld parts in various directions including flat, horizontal, vertical, or overhead.
  • Heat, form, and cut metal pieces using welding equipment and hand tools.
  • Set up and shut down welding equipment.
  • Arrange and verify welding parts/material needed as per blueprint prior to assembly.
  • Assemble and tack-weld components using appropriate equipment.
  • Use tools like straightedges and rulers to arrange and align parts.
  • Utilize grinders or other hand tools to prepare the finished product for paint.
  • Maintain a smooth process of fitting, burning, and welding.
  • Set welding machine variables including drive roll tensions and gas flow.
  • Practice good welding habits including startup and shutdown of machines.
  • Communicate effectively and demonstrate good listening skills.
  • Perform general cleaning in the area.
  • Obey safety standards and follow regulations.
  • Perform duties in a moral and ethical manner.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Welder I: Minimum of 6 months experience in a shop/production environment.
  • Welder I: 1 to 3 years welding related experience and/or training or equivalent.
  • Welder II: Minimum of 1-year experience in a shop/production environment.
  • Welder II: 3 to 5 years welding related experience and/or training or equivalent.
  • Welder III: Minimum of 2+ years experience in a shop/production environment.
  • Welder III: 5+ years welding related experience and/or training or equivalent.
  • Ability to read tape measure and use tools such as grinders, drills, and screw guns.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • Must pass a drug screen and background check for employment.

Additional Information

  • May stand for long periods of up to 12 hours.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. repetitively.
  • Work in various adverse conditions such as tight spaces, heights, and extreme temperatures.

How this job compares in Clearfield, UT

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Utah currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$29/hr across 31 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 Clearfield, UT

Clearfield, UT is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Utah as a whole we're tracking 66 other active welding openings from 61 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Utah.

The most active employers in Utah at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Complex Fabricators Inc (4), Precision Castparts (2), and Nucor Corporation (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.

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