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Job Description

Overview

Express Employment Professionals is hiring a Welder/Fabricator for a local company. If you have experience reading blueprints, welding, and working with structural steel, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret blueprints and fabrication drawings
  • Perform MIG and TIG welding
  • Complete steel and structural welding projects
  • Fabricate and assemble structural components, steel beams, and building frameworks
  • Operate welding equipment, torches, saws, and grinders

Requirements

  • Follow all safety procedures and quality standards
  • Previous welding and fabrication experience required
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints
  • Experience with MIG and TIG welding
  • Structural steel welding experience preferred
  • CNC experience is a plus
  • Ability to lift, bend, twist, and work in a physically demanding environment
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality workmanship
  • Must pass a drug screen
  • Must successfully complete a welding test conducted at the company

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Compensation

  • Pay: $23.00 per hour
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How this job compares in Kalispell, MT

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Montana, whose middle half runs $22–$33/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% 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 Kalispell, MT

Kalispell, MT is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Montana as a whole we're tracking 20 other active welding openings from 13 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Montana.

The most active employers in Montana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Loenbro (5), Strobel Energy Group LLC (2), and Continental Steel Works (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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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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.