Job Description

Overview

At CNH, we serve and advance the people who feed and build a growing world. The Welder is responsible for welding and fabricating metal components according to specifications, ensuring strong, secure, and high-quality welds.

Responsibilities

  • Follow all safety/environmental and quality requirements/procedures.
  • Work from shop orders, part prints, route and method sheets and direction and instruction from supervisor.
  • Maintain weld tips.
  • Weld components and units with specified size and type of weld, proper strength, and neat appearance.
  • Obtain welding, fixtures and positioners from storage, identified by part or tool number, as indicated on route sheet.
  • Weld beads of prescribed length, radius, and size to fasten elements securely together to meet specifications and leak proof seams when required.
  • Weld elements to make regular and irregular, eccentric, and symmetrical weldments of simple, ordinary, and complex design.
  • Vary amperage and voltage to obtain quality weld at maximum linear speed consistent with good quality weld.
  • Obtain accurate angular, dimensional and spatial relationships, within specified limits, by careful and frequent cleaning of fixture, proper positioning, clamping, and checking of parts in fixture.
  • Obtain smooth, strong, leak proof welds when specified with required fusion and penetration and free from distortion and warpage.
  • Perform other related or similar duties as required.

Requirements

  • Equivalent knowledge or similar experience in Gas Metal Arc welding process.
  • Knowledge of weld symbols and characteristics and properties of various metals.
  • Techniques in welding to obtain proper fusion, penetration, and strength.
  • Knowledge of simple mathematics for reading blueprints and for use of measuring devices.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Savings & Retirement benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility & Family building support
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements
Savings & Retirement benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Parental leave
Adoption assistance
Fertility & Family building support
Employee Assistance Programs
Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off

How this job compares in Benson, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota — toward the top of a $25–$31/hr middle band drawn from 55 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 87% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Benson, MN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Benson, MN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 83 other active welding openings from 51 employers. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Lake Air Products (8), Aerotek (6), and Atlas Copco Group (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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