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Overview

The role involves operating metal fabrication machinery, assisting with welding steel components, and ensuring that finished products meet quality and blueprint specifications. The position also includes maintaining accurate inventory and production records, performing basic machine maintenance, and assisting in other departments as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Operate metal fabrication machinery.
  • Assist with welding steel components.
  • Ensure finished products meet quality and blueprint specifications.
  • Maintain accurate inventory and production records.
  • Perform basic machine maintenance.
  • Assist in other departments as needed.
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How this job compares in Yankton, SD

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across South Dakota currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$41/hr across 26 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 Yankton, SD

Yankton, SD currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across South Dakota as a whole we're tracking 54 other active welding openings from 41 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Yankton, or widen the search to South Dakota.

The most active employers in South Dakota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Maguire (4), MasTec Industrial, a MasTec Company (3), and Harvard Integrations (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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. Metal Fabrication/Floater figures were last recalculated when this page was built.