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Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a MIG Welder to join our team, responsible for welding on various projects including parts for the agricultural, military defense, and material handling equipment industries. The position offers opportunities for obtaining welding certifications while employed.

Responsibilities

  • Perform custom and production welding projects on various materials
  • MIG weld materials ranging 1/8" to 1"+ in thickness based on projects
  • Work from blueprints to ensure projects are built to specifications
  • Use overhead cranes to lift and rotate projects during building process
  • Learn to weld mild steel as well as stainless steel and aluminum materials

Requirements

  • 1-2+ years of welding experience OR Welding Degree required
  • Experience working from blueprints and weld symbols
  • Experience with aluminum preferred

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 1st shift hours with flexible schedule available
  • Permanent position based out of New London, WI
  • Fully onsite position

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in New London, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for MIG welder jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $23–$24/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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 New London, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in New London, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 165 other active welding openings from 109 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

Aerotek currently has 1 other opening live in Wisconsin, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (20), Wabash (6), and Metalcraft of Mayville, 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 Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marinette at $32/hr, Manitowoc at $30/hr, and Waukesha at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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 MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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