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Overview

Gilbert Industries is hiring 6 to 8 welders for a weekend shift in their Sparta, MO shop, working three twelve-hour days from Friday to Sunday. The company has been building custom steel tanks and pressure vessels since 2001 and offers a stable work environment with a backlog of projects.

Responsibilities

  • Weld stainless, duplex, and carbon steel tanks and vessels using TIG and MIG.
  • Read tank prints, interpret weld symbols, and fit up shells, heads, nozzles, and supports.
  • Weld in vertical, horizontal, and overhead positions, including confined spaces.
  • Use grinders, plasma cutters, fork trucks, bridge cranes, and man lifts.
  • Keep your area clean and safe and ensure your welds pass inspection.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of production, structural, or tank welding experience.
  • MIG or flux core welding experience required, TIG experience is a plus.
  • Weekend shift or 12-hour shift experience strongly preferred.
  • Able to read prints and use tape and measuring tools.
  • Able to pass a weld test, background check, and drug test.
  • Able to lift 50 pounds, climb ladders, and work in confined spaces.
  • Reliable attendance is crucial for the crew.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Schedule: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 6:00 AM to 6:30 PM.
  • 36 hours over 3 days, with 4 days off every week.
  • Work location is in person.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Sparta, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Missouri, whose middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% 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 Sparta, MO

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Sparta, MO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 93 other active welding openings from 65 employers. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Leonardo DRS (5), Aerotek (4), and Veterans Health Administration (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core 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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Weekend Shift Welder/Fabricator (3x12s, Fri-Sun) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.