Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

The Structural Welder position involves following customer specifications and engineering drawings to assemble and weld components, primarily using MIG and gas welding techniques. The role includes installing specialized parts, examining weld quality, and collaborating with engineering staff, all within a safe and controlled environment.

Responsibilities

  • Follow customer specifications and engineering drawings to gather materials and weld components.
  • Set up equipment and weld parts together using MIG, gas welding, and arc welding processes.
  • Install specialized parts and components on enclosures and bases using cutting, welding, and grinding tools.
  • Examine welds for appropriate size, quality, and precision.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and rewelding as needed.
  • Operate crane or other lifting equipment to position components for assembly.
  • Work with engineering staff to clarify information and obtain design changes.
  • Maintain a clean and orderly work area.
  • Follow established safety guidelines.
  • Perform additional duties as requested.

Additional Information

  • Full-time position located in Tea, SD.
  • Evening shift work.
  • Great pay and benefits, including overtime opportunities and tool allowance.
  • Safe working environment with advancement opportunities.
  • Year-round work in a team environment.
  • Majority of work is indoors and climate controlled.
  • Opportunity to travel to customer sites if desired.
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Tea, SD

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across South Dakota currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$32/hr across 30 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 Tea, SD

Tea, SD currently has 4 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 South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 49 other active welding openings from 37 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Tea, or widen the search to South Dakota.

Harvard Integrations currently has 2 other openings live in South Dakota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Vermeer Corporation (3), Aerotek (3), and MANITOU Group (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 structural welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Similar openings near Tea, SD

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Structural Welder - Evening Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.