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Overview

Join our team as a Fabrication Welder, where you will play a pivotal role in constructing and modifying vehicle components according to engineering blueprints to create armored vehicles. This is a hands-on position requiring proficiency in fabrication and welding equipment, a strong mechanical aptitude, and a dedication to quality and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Weld armoring plates onto vehicles.
  • Polish and grind metal surfaces.
  • Perform heavy lifting as required.
  • Read and interpret engineering blueprints.
  • Assemble and weld parts during assembly.
  • Modify vehicle components to meet specifications.
  • Utilize various fabrication and welding tools and equipment.
  • Set up manual fabrication machines such as presses, shears, and cutters.
  • Maintain internal inventory records.

Requirements

  • Thorough experience in MIG welding.
  • Experience in a fabrication shop or manufacturing setting.
  • Ability to pass an initial welding test using blueprints.
  • Proficiency in using hand tools like drills, saws, and grinders.
  • Minimum of two years of relevant field experience.
  • Knowledge of assembly practices.
  • Welding certification is a plus but not necessary.
  • Bilingual or Spanish-speaking abilities.
  • Must be a citizen or resident.
  • Experience in manufacturing.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Info

  • Contract-to-hire position based out of Miami, FL.
  • Work in a 69,000+ square foot manufacturing facility with fully secured access control.
  • First shift schedule from Monday to Thursday, 6 am to 4:30 pm, with overtime opportunities as needed.
  • Position anticipated to close on Nov 14, 2026.
  • Fully onsite position in Miami, FL.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in West Miami, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Florida, where the middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 13% 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 West Miami, FL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in West Miami, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 257 other active welding openings from 133 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (27), Honeywell Technologies (12), and BAE Systems (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Miami at $35/hr, Cape Canaveral at $32/hr, and Jacksonville at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. 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.

See all welder fabricator 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. Fabrication Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.