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Overview

Aerotek is hiring experienced TIG Welders to build custom, short-run, and prototype equipment for the food industry in a temperature-controlled custom fabrication shop in Anoka, MN. This position focuses on precision fabrication rather than repetitive production welding, primarily working with thin-gauge stainless steel.

Responsibilities

  • Perform TIG/GTAW, MIG/GMAW, and wire-feed welding.
  • Weld and fabricate thin stainless steel and food-grade equipment.
  • Build custom and prototype assemblies from blueprints.
  • Perform layout, fixturing, fit-up, and setup.
  • Read welding symbols, drawings, and GD&T.
  • Use hand tools, measuring instruments, and welding equipment.
  • Produce accurate welds in multiple positions while maintaining high quality standards.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of welding experience preferred.
  • Strong TIG welding and thin stainless steel experience.
  • Experience with custom fabrication rather than only production welding.
  • Strong blueprint reading and math skills.
  • Ability to perform detailed layout, fit-up, and fabrication.
  • Familiarity with ASME Section IX and/or AWS D1.1.
  • GTAW, FCAW, and/or GMAW experience.
  • Detail-oriented with a strong focus on weld quality.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 1st shift: 6am-4:30pm (Monday-Thursday), Weekend shift: Friday-Sunday 6:00 AM-6:00 PM.
  • Contract-to-hire opportunity.
  • Interview process includes a TIG weld test.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Ramsey, MN

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Minnesota, whose middle half runs $27–$30/hr across 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 81% 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 Ramsey, MN

Ramsey, MN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 65 other active welding openings from 39 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Minnesota.

Aerotek currently has 4 other openings live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Lake Air Products (8), Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN (5), and Aerotek (4). 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, 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.

See all stainless steel welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.
  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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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. Tig Welder (Stainless Steel) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.