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Job Description

Overview

The TIG Welder position involves skilled TIG welding work including inspection, planning, preparation, and cutting to fabricate, repair, maintain, and install metal items while ensuring compliance with safety standards and maximizing productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the selection and procurement of materials and equipment required for TIG welding
  • Read blueprints and schematics
  • Measure and align workpieces using straightedges, clamps, and calipers
  • Fill ducts with water/air and submerge in water to identify pipe leakage
  • Ensure compliance with established health/safety policies and regulations
  • Carry out grinding and thermal cutting operations to obtain various textures and sizes for metal parts
  • Oversee the set-up of TIG welding equipment
  • Operate power and hand tools such as arc welders, buffing machines, and scrapers
  • Maintain good working knowledge of the welding characteristics of metals such as stainless steel, aluminum, and titanium
  • Read and interpret welding blueprints, schematics, and codes
  • Carry out preventative maintenance and repair of piping systems and metal structures
  • Ensure welding operations meet set specifications and construction requirements
  • Oversee the training and mentoring of new and trainee TIG welders
  • Perform TIG welding on materials such as fiberglass, iron, plastic, and copper
  • Conduct radiographic and bend tests to verify the quality of weld
  • Perform all other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • Trade school, college, weld experience, or a combination
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How this job compares in East Peoria, IL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, TIG welder jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$30/hr across 8 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 East Peoria, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in East Peoria, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 331 other active welding openings from 198 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (17), S&C Electric Company (11), and Venteon (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Downers Grove at $36/hr, and Addison at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. 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.

See all TIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. TIG Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.