Location
Stanley, NY
Wage
$24 – $26/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 2, 2026
We are an established local Metal Fabrication business seeking a highly skilled, reliable, and detail-oriented MIG / TIG Welder & Precision Fabricator to join our shop team. This is a full-time, first-shift, non-remote position.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $30/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $26–$32/hr across 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 21% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Stanley, NY, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 157 other active welding openings from 104 employers. Browse welding jobs across New York.
The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (20), Cushman & Wakefield (5), and Con Edison (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $41/hr, Brooklyn at $30/hr, and Buffalo at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - MIG/TIG & Precision Fabricator (Full Health & Dental Benefits) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.