Job Description

Overview

At SteelCon Inc., we build the backbone of America's progress by delivering cutting-edge structural solutions with unmatched reliability. We are hiring hard-working, like-minded people to join our Vandalia, MO team as full-time Structural Welders - Ironworkers.

Responsibilities

  • Work with minimal supervision to support accurate, safe, compliant, and high-quality projects.
  • Accurately follow blueprints and verbal/written instructions.
  • Properly operate machinery like presses, plate rolls, and press brakes.
  • Accurately plan, lay out, and fit metal components while maintaining alignment tolerances.
  • Align metal parts using jacks, turnbuckles, clips, wedges, and mauls.
  • Mark reference lines, including center, buttock, and frame lines.
  • Set, fit, and erect assemblies and modules within alignment tolerances.
  • Install structural foundations, doors, hatches, brackets, clips, and more.
  • Tack weld panels and assemblies as needed.
  • Safely roll, bend, and shape plates, beams, and other metal parts.
  • Perform fitter duties and other responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

  • Maintain American Welding Society certification on a 1-inch plate in flat position using gas metal arc welding and flux-cored arc welding processes.
  • Adequately operate a cutting torch.
  • Adjust the welder to ensure proper feed rate and temperature.
  • Properly operate forklifts, jib hoists, and overhead cranes.
  • Learn and use hand signals for crane operation.
  • Read, understand, and follow cutting lists, shop orders, and shop drawings.
  • Perform general math calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, etc.).
  • Read, write, and follow semi-complicated verbal and written instructions.
  • Communicate with managers and co-workers.
  • Set priorities, meet goals, and work under periodic supervision.
  • Use a tape measure/ruler.
  • Follow safety policies and take accountability for your work.
  • Multitask.
  • Pass skills-based tests including fillet weld break test and basic welding test.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm, with some weekends required and overtime available.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k

How this job compares in Vandalia, MO

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Missouri currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$29/hr across 48 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 Vandalia, MO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Vandalia, MO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 80 other active welding openings from 55 employers. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (5), Leonardo DRS (4), and Bass Pro Shops (4). 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 Flux-Core. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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