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Mokon

Welder

Location

Buffalo, NY

Wage

$22 – $25/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG WeldingStick Welding
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Posted on November 3, 2026

Job Description

Overview

For over 65 years, Mokon has set the standard for high quality heating and cooling process temperature control systems. This position is responsible for the proper, productive and safe fitting and joining of tank and various components/parts together with select welding processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Follow any and all company safety rules and guidelines.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly/tacking and or welding using prescribed fixtures and proper work procedures.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as MIG and TIG.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Monitor welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods via established work procedures.
  • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers.
  • Recognize and communicate potential design and production issues/problems.
  • Build custom systems from only drawings.
  • Work within established time limits.
  • Adhere to work instructions and SOP’s in accordance with ISO 9001.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Welding experience of 1 year is preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
PTO
Vision
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How this job compares in Buffalo, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 27% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $27–$41/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 15% 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.

The local market in Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NY currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 157 other active welding openings from 104 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Buffalo, or widen the search to 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. Buffalo is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick 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.

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