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Custom Cut Metals

Welder/Fabricator

Location

Frankfort, IL

Wage

$28 – $30/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG WeldingSteelStainless SteelAluminum
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Posted on October 30, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Custom Cut Metals is seeking an experienced Welder/Metal Fabricator to join our team. We manufacture custom stainless steel, aluminum, and carbon steel components and assemblies for industrial and food-processing equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate and weld custom metal components and assemblies.
  • Read engineering drawings and determine appropriate fabrication methods.

Requirements

  • Strong welding skills with carbon steel and stainless steel.
  • Experience welding stainless steel and aluminum, including precision and thin-gauge fabrication.
  • Ability to interpret fabrication drawings, dimensions, tolerances, and welding symbols.
  • Measure, cut, fit, align, and assemble custom components and equipment.
  • Experience operating saws, grinders, drills, and fabrication equipment.
  • Ability to complete fabrication projects with minimal supervision.
  • Willingness and ability to perform occasional local equipment installations and modifications.
  • Strong attention to dimensional accuracy, weld quality, and safe work practices.
  • Experience with LightWELD handheld laser welding equipment.
  • Experience operating a Marvel Ironworker or similar punching, shearing, and notching equipment.
  • Stainless steel fabrication for food-processing equipment.
  • Conveyor, machine frame, platform, and industrial equipment fabrication.
  • Forklift operation, rigging, and equipment installation.
  • Mechanical assembly and troubleshooting.
  • Operate fabrication equipment safely and efficiently.
  • Inspect completed assemblies for quality and dimensional accuracy.
  • Work with engineering and production personnel to resolve fabrication issues.
  • Assist with occasional local field installations and equipment modifications.
  • Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area.
  • 3+ years of metal fabrication and welding experience preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to work from fabrication drawings.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Valid driver's license with clean driving record, passport and ability to travel as needed.

Benefits

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

Additional Info

  • Approximately 30% travel. Most trips less than 3 days duration.
  • Primarily shop-based work with limited local travel.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Frankfort, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting sits about 16% above the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $22–$27/hr middle band drawn from 18 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 78% 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 Frankfort, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Frankfort, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 341 other active welding openings from 216 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (16), S&C Electric Company (10), and The Boyd Group LLC (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $39/hr, Downers Grove at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

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.

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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. Welder/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.