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Job Description

Overview

This entry-level welding position involves assisting with various welding tasks and learning to improve welding efficiency and quality. The role is critical to production, impacting both team efficiency and the quality of finished parts.

Responsibilities

  • Assist with metal cutting, plasma cutting, pencil rod machine operations, grinding, painting, and moving metal/frames.
  • Repair and weld metal tools, equipment, parts, and carts in the shop.
  • Operate a forklift to move frames according to the production schedule and communicate with the production team.
  • Achieve 90%+ fluency in reading frame shop ticket drawings.
  • Participate in daily 5S responsibilities and complete checklists.
  • Promote a safe and organized work environment.

Requirements

  • Must have at least 1 year of welding experience.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with management and coworkers.
  • Must be able to follow instructions and work well under deadlines.
  • Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately.
  • Must be able to react productively to change and handle other assigned tasks.
  • Must be willing to learn to read and interpret basic shop drawings and production tickets.

Additional Information

  • Pay ranges from $18.00 to $20.00 per hour.
  • Expected hours are 40.0 per week.
  • Work location is in person.
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How this job compares in Salt Lake City, UT

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 27% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Utah, where the middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

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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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 Helper figures were last recalculated when this page was built.