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Overview

Express is partnering with a precision manufacturing company in Export, PA to add a skilled technician to their welding team. The role involves working in a clean, quality-driven shop where custom metal components and assemblies are built with exacting standards.

Responsibilities

  • Review blueprints, technical drawings, job travelers, and customer specifications.
  • Set up welding equipment, including robotic arc units, for the work ahead.
  • Choose the appropriate welding process for each job (TIG, MIG, stick, or carbon welding).
  • Position materials safely using the proper material-handling equipment.
  • Monitor gauges and readouts, making precise adjustments as needed.
  • Inspect welds and work in progress to ensure quality standards are met.
  • Complete secondary finishing such as grinding, deburring, wire brushing, and cleaning.
  • Accurately record production quantities, time, and quality inspection results.
  • Keep the work area safe and organized and report any safety concerns.
  • Assist with other manufacturing tasks as needed.

Requirements

  • Hands-on welding experience and familiarity with TIG, MIG, stick, and carbon welding processes.
  • Ability to set up and operate welding equipment, including robotic arc welders.
  • Skill in reading and interpreting blueprints, technical drawings, job travelers, and customer specifications.
  • Strong attention to detail, quality mindset, and adherence to safety procedures.
  • Mechanical aptitude with the ability to learn new equipment and processes.
  • Independent work style and capacity to manage multiple tasks.
  • Bonus: experience with robotic welding, material-handling equipment, or secondary metal-finishing operations.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Schedule: Monday–Friday, 6:00 AM–3:30 PM

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Export, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $27–$37/hr across 96 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 15% 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 Export, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Export, 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, and Stick 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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