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Overview

Silver Star Industries, Inc. is seeking a skilled, collaborative Lead TIG Welder to guide our welding team. In this role, you will combine your advanced technical welding skills with hands-on leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Train incoming welders, answer technical questions, and help team members improve their TIG techniques.
  • Execute precision TIG welding on aluminum, steel, and stainless steel components to exact blueprints.
  • Inspect the team's work to ensure all welds meet structural integrity standards, are flat, and have clean finishes.
  • Assist the shop supervisor in assigning daily tasks and keeping projects moving on schedule.
  • Model proper tool usage and strict adherence to safety policies to maintain an incident-free workshop.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of professional TIG welding experience, with a track record of informal or formal leadership/mentoring.
  • Ability to pass an advanced, in-person internal welding demonstration test.
  • Mastery of blueprint reading, weld symbols, structural drawings, and fine hand/shop tools.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to effectively coach, train, and give constructive feedback to peers.
  • High School Diploma/GED equivalent, and must be at least 18 years old.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Expected hours: 40.0 per week
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in North Bonneville, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Washington, whose middle half runs $28–$34/hr across 86 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 40% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in North Bonneville, WA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in North Bonneville, WA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 106 other active welding openings from 67 employers. Browse welding jobs across Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (12), All American Marine (8), and Parker Hannifin (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Seattle at $38/hr, Shelton at $30/hr, and Bellingham at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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