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Overview

The Welder I performs highly skilled welding and fabrication work on various metals, including exotic metals and new alloys. This position requires expertise in welding thin-wall materials, producing full-penetration welds, and completing work that meets stringent nondestructive inspection standards.

Responsibilities

  • Fuses all types and thicknesses of metal parts together, including exotic metals by means of an electric welding apparatus.
  • Welds products that must qualify under all inspection techniques such as nondestructive inspection techniques.
  • Performs all types of welds in all positions by heliarc and metallic arc processes.
  • Assists in the development of new and improved welding and joining techniques.
  • Sets up and lays out any assembly up to and including highly complex multiple-plane assemblies.
  • Sets up work for LG 6 and lower-graded welders, including work on automatic welding equipment.
  • Trains lower-grade employees on welding processes, specifications, and techniques.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned by supervision.

Requirements

  • Can fully purge welds for full penetration welds and prevention of burn-through.
  • Must be able to weld materials with a wall thickness of .005”.
  • Knowledge of blueprints, welding specifications, properties of metals (including exotic and new alloys), gases, welding rods, fluxes, and purging chambers.

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How this job compares in Bartlett, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $26–$41/hr across 184 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Bartlett, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Bartlett, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 242 other active welding openings from 145 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (12), S&C Electric Company (9), and Crash Champions (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Bedford Park at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Bartlett, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. 2nd shift TIG Welder I (LG806) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.