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GMS Environmental,LLC

Experience welder

Location

Palm, PA

Wage

$26 – $30/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG WeldingStick WeldingFlux-Core WeldingPIPE
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Posted on November 10, 2026

Job Description

Overview

As an Experience Welder, you’ll turn technical drawings and specifications into accurate, durable metal components. You’ll perform welding, cutting, fabrication, and assembly work in shop or construction-site settings, selecting appropriate tools and methods while following safety protocols and American Welding Society (AWS) standards.

Responsibilities

  • Use measuring tape for shop math and basic math to confirm dimensions.
  • Perform stick welding for projects out of town Monday through Thursday.
  • Weld and fabricate metal materials, including sheet metal, using MIG, FCAW, SMAW, and TIG welding.
  • Complete metal and mechanical fabrication, sheet metal fabrication, and assembly.
  • Perform plasma cutting and pipe threading as needed.
  • Measure and inspect work with calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
  • Use hand and power tools and operate a crane when required.
  • Maintain a safe work area and follow applicable safety protocols and welding standards.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated welding and fabrication ability.
  • Mechanical knowledge and blueprint reading skills.
  • Familiarity with MIG, FCAW, SMAW (stick), and TIG welding.
  • Experience with plasma cutting and pipe threading.
  • Ability to use calipers, micrometers, measuring instruments, hand tools, and power tools.
  • Crane experience is a plus.
  • Construction-site or fabrication-shop experience is helpful.
  • Experience with sheet metal, metal fabrication, mechanical fabrication, and assembly.
  • Ability to apply shop math and basic math to interpret dimensions and verify finished work.

Additional Information

  • Pay: $26.00 - $30.00 per hour
  • Expected hours: No less than 50.0 per week
  • Work Location: In person
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How this job compares in Palm, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, whose middle half runs $27–$37/hr across 96 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 31% 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 Palm, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Palm, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 158 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr and York at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, 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. Experience welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.