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Overview

As a Welder/Fabricator, you’ll turn technical drawings and metal materials into accurate, durable components and assemblies. You’ll work across fabrication and manufacturing tasks, using appropriate welding and cutting methods while following safety protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints and interpret mechanical drawings, technical drawings, dimensions, and specifications.
  • Measure, cut, fit, weld, and assemble metal parts, sheet metal, ductwork, and mechanical fabrications.
  • Perform MIG (metal inert gas) and stick welding, including SMAW (shielded metal arc welding), as assigned.
  • Use hand and power tools, cranes, plasma cutters, and measuring instruments such as calipers and micrometers.
  • Check finished work for accuracy and quality, apply American Welding Society (AWS) standards where applicable, and maintain a safe, organized work area.

Requirements

  • Welding and fabrication ability.
  • Blueprint reading and mechanical blueprint interpretation.
  • Basic math and shop math skills.
  • Mechanical knowledge and safe use of hand tools, power tools, and measuring instruments.
  • Familiarity with metal fabrication, sheet metal fabrication, assembly, and metal materials.
  • Experience with gas metal arc welding, MIG, TIG, FCAW, stick welding, or SMAW is useful.
  • Construction site, fabrication shop, or manufacturing experience is preferred.
  • Experience with cranes, ductwork, pipe threading, machining, plasma cutting, soldering, and AWS standards is an asset.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Pay: $25.00 - $32.00 per hour
  • Expected hours: 40.0 per week
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Culver, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Oregon, whose middle half runs $26–$32/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 36% 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 Culver, OR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Culver, OR, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Oregon as a whole we're tracking 73 other active welding openings from 49 employers. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (11), AAON (3), and Peninsula Iron Works (3). 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, 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. Welder/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.