Job Description

Overview

The Welder II position at Frontgrade involves using welding techniques and machines to fabricate or repair metal parts while ensuring proper care of welding equipment. Frontgrade builds mission-critical electronics for demanding environments, emphasizing the importance of their workforce in achieving mission success.

Responsibilities

  • Operate welding machines to fabricate or repair metal parts and products
  • Perform layout, cutting and welding work as required
  • Complete welding of components according to procedures
  • Arrange parts for welding and staging processes
  • Read and interpret blueprints or welding process specifications
  • Set up welding machines based on specifications of the job
  • Use specialized gas metal arc welding techniques and equipment to join pieces of metal together
  • Work from specifications, drawings, prints, and welding symbols

Requirements

  • Minimum of two (2) years of experience in area of responsibility
  • Experience in manufacturing, technology, or aerospace and defense
  • Ability to set up welding machine for aluminum

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This position may require access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by either ITAR or EAR U.S. export laws
  • You may need to obtain a U.S. Government export license(s), as required by law.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Exeter, NH

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across New Hampshire currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$38/hr across 11 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Exeter, NH

Exeter, NH currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across New Hampshire as a whole we're tracking 20 other active welding openings from 17 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Exeter, or widen the search to New Hampshire.

Frontgrade Technologies currently has 3 other openings live in New Hampshire, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New Hampshire at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Frontgrade Technologies (3) and GE Aerospace (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Exeter, NH

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. TIG Welder II - $5,000 Sign On figures were last recalculated when this page was built.