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Job Description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced steel installer familiar with installing structural steel, handrails, stairs, gates, and other miscellaneous metals. The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented, dependable, and a team player.

Responsibilities

  • Read prints/drawings to successfully install parts/components.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with fellow crew and managers.
  • Pass a welding certification test if required.
  • Use hand and power tools, torch, and read a tape measure.
  • Support field installation, crane operations, and rigging while following safety protocols and applicable standards.

Requirements

  • Construction site and fabrication shop experience.
  • Proficient in both MIG and Stick welding.
  • Knowledge of how to safely operate forklifts and material lifts, including how to give hand signals.
  • Working knowledge of welding processes, materials, fabrication, and mechanical systems.
  • Ability to read blueprints, interpret technical drawings, and apply mechanical blueprint interpretation and shop math.
  • Familiarity with hand tools, power tools, ability to read a tape measure, torch cutting, and rigging.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is Monday - Friday from 6:30 am - 5:00 pm, with hours fluctuating during busier times.
  • Work location is in person.

Benefits

401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Fort Collins, CO

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Colorado, whose middle half runs $24–$34/hr across 59 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 47% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Fort Collins, CO

Fort Collins, CO is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 77 other active welding openings from 58 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Colorado.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (8), RK Industries (5), and Roeslein & Associates (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Denver at $33/hr and Colorado Springs at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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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. Field Welding/Installer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.