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Overview

Sierra Pacific Industries is a fourth-generation family-owned company and one of the largest lumber and millwork producers in the U.S. They are currently seeking a qualified swing shift fabricator to work in their fabrication shop in Shelton, Washington, offering competitive pay and opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities

  • Provide fabrication support for all manufacturing facilities throughout Washington
  • Apply welding fabrication techniques to achieve visually and structurally sufficient welds
  • Perform precision layout work and accurately read and interpret blueprints/plans, sketches, and verbal instructions
  • Ensure product and process quality through self-inspection of finished products
  • Possibility to work at other divisions, requiring travel
  • Overtime sometimes expected during busy production times

Requirements

  • 3 years’ welding and fabricating experience or educational equivalent preferred
  • Experience with Mig, Arc, Dual Shield, cutting torch, metal cutting band saw, air arc, and fabrication tools
  • Demonstrated ability to focus on current work while planning the next stages of work

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Swing shift position
  • Location: Shelton, Washington

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Shelton, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Washington, whose middle half runs $30–$38/hr across 28 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 Shelton, WA

Shelton, WA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 106 other active welding openings from 68 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Shelton, or widen the search to Washington.

Sierra Pacific Industries currently has 4 other openings live in Washington, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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 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 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 welder fabricator 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. Fabricator (Shelton Fabrication Shop) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.