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Overview

This Welder position offers weekly pay and is available for immediate start in Tea, SD. The role involves fabricating and assembling bases and enclosures using MIG and other welding processes in a rapidly growing manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Follow customer specifications and engineering drawings to lay out, assemble, and weld bases and enclosures.
  • Gather required materials, prepare workpieces, and organize tools and equipment prior to welding.
  • Set up welding equipment and weld parts together using MIG, gas welding, and various arc welding processes.
  • Install specialized parts and components on enclosures, including insulation, Z-bar, doors, hinges, brackets, and related hardware using cutting, welding, and grinding tools.
  • Install specialized parts and components on bases, including structural steel, flat and formed sheet metal, plate, lifts, and lugs.

Requirements

  • Proficiency with MIG welding and familiarity with gas and arc welding processes.
  • Ability to use basic hand tools, power tools, tape measures, grinders, and related fabrication equipment.
  • Strong measurement skills, including accurate use of a tape measure and understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.
  • Ability to read and comprehend written instructions and follow detailed work orders.
  • Previous welding experience, including basic metal welding.
  • Experience operating a forklift is preferred.
  • Blueprint reading skills are helpful; training can be provided for candidates with strong aptitude.
  • Prior experience in a manufacturing or fabrication environment.
  • Comfort working with cranes or other lifting equipment after appropriate training.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • This is a Permanent position based out of Sioux Falls, SD.
  • The pay range for this position is $23-$28/hour.
  • The facility currently employs around 600 people with plans to expand to approximately 800 employees within the next one and a half to two years.
  • This is a fully onsite position.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Ben Claire, SD

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across South Dakota, whose middle half runs $23–$32/hr across 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% 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 Ben Claire, SD

Ben Claire, SD is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 49 other active welding openings from 37 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across South Dakota.

Aerotek 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), Harvard Integrations (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.

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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. Welder - Weekly Pay figures were last recalculated when this page was built.