Job Description

Overview

Ashley Sling, a division of American Equipment Holdings, is a leading rigging and below-the-hook service provider in the United States, committed to customer and employee care. The company offers competitive wages, benefits, and training opportunities for its team members.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate and assemble various lifting and rigging products including slings, wire ropes, lifting devices, rigging hardware, sling protection solutions, hoists, synthetic ropes, and tie-down equipment.
  • Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and customer requirements to ensure accurate fabrication and assembly.
  • Inspect finished products to verify conformance to specifications and quality standards.
  • Perform routine maintenance and repairs on fabricating equipment and tools.
  • Manage inventory levels of raw materials and finished products to ensure availability for customer orders.
  • Review, interpret drawings and blueprints and capacity tables.
  • Understand codes and specifications as outlined on order tickets.
  • Calculate wire rope cut lengths, fitting requirements and identify the appropriate equipment to produce all varieties of wire rope and chain assemblies.
  • Splice wire rope and fabricate chain slings.
  • Understand and operate industrial swaging machines, proof testing machines, and forklifts.
  • Attach proper tags and labels to products.
  • Report defective or substandard material supplies or products.
  • Maintain work area, equipment, and tools in a clean and organized manner, and follow all Safety Guidelines.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in fabricating and distributing lifting and rigging equipment, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
  • Expertise in fabricating various types of slings, wire ropes, lifting devices, rigging hardware, sling protection solutions, hoists, synthetic ropes, and tie-down equipment.
  • Strong understanding of materials used in lifting and rigging applications and their respective properties.
  • Knowledge of industry standards and regulations related to lifting and rigging equipment.
  • Ability to operate fabricating equipment and tools safely and effectively.
  • Effective communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Welding experience, preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Hourly Wage

Benefits

Hourly Wage

How this job compares in Salt Lake City, UT

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Utah, whose middle half runs $20–$24/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Salt Lake City, UT

We're tracking 22 other active welding openings in Salt Lake City, UT right now, from 18 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Utah as a whole we're tracking 70 other active welding openings from 62 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Salt Lake City, or widen the search to Utah.

The most active employers in Utah at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Complex Fabricators Inc (4), Zachry Group (2), and Precision Castparts (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Utah, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are West Jordan at $27/hr and Salt Lake City at $25/hr. Salt Lake City is among them.

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