Job Description

Overview

Goodfellow Corporation is seeking a Fabrication Welder who will fabricate and weld durable metal components and structures to meet drawing, quality, and safety requirements. The role involves reading fabrication drawings, performing MIG and TIG welding, and ensuring the production of safe and structurally sound metal components.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret dimensional drawings, blueprints, work orders, weld symbols, and specifications to plan fabrication work.
  • Fit, tack, weld, and assemble metal components and structures using MIG and TIG welding processes as required.
  • Produce welds in flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions while maintaining proper penetration, profile, and appearance.
  • Measure, mark, position, clamp, and align components to specified dimensions, tolerances, and configurations before welding.
  • Use grinders, saws, torches, fixtures, material-handling equipment, and other fabrication tools safely and correctly.
  • Inspect welds and completed assemblies for dimensional accuracy, structural soundness, workmanship, and conformance to drawings and specifications.
  • Identify defects, distortion, incorrect fit-up, or drawing discrepancies and correct or report issues before work proceeds.
  • Complete assigned work accurately and efficiently while minimizing scrap, rework, and avoidable material waste.
  • Protect finished work and properly stage completed components for the next production step.
  • Follow all Goodfellow safety requirements, approved welding procedures, hot-work practices, and equipment operating instructions.
  • Wear required personal protective equipment, including welding hood, gloves, safety footwear, eye and hearing protection, and other task-specific protection.
  • Inspect welding machines, leads, torches, regulators, ventilation, tools, and work areas before use and report unsafe conditions promptly.
  • Monitor equipment settings, operation, and temperature and make authorized adjustments appropriate to the material and process.
  • Maintain clean, orderly work areas and safely store welding consumables, compressed-gas cylinders, tools, and materials.
  • Coordinate with supervisors, fitters, fabricators, machine operators, and other team members to meet production priorities and delivery commitments.
  • Communicate material shortages, equipment concerns, quality issues, and production delays early enough for corrective action.
  • Participate in training, cross-training, continuous-improvement activities, and other assigned fabrication or shop work.

How this job compares in Boulder City, NV

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 28% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Nevada, where the middle half runs $23–$32/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 10% 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 Boulder City, NV

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Boulder City, NV, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Nevada as a whole we're tracking 34 other active welding openings from 21 employers. Browse welding jobs across Nevada.

The most active employers in Nevada at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Las Vegas, NV (12), Jensen Infrastructure (2), and FAAC Incorporated (2). 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 and TIG 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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