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Job Description

Overview

We are a locally owned company that is well-established looking for Full-time Welders, Pipefitters, Structural Fitters and Millwrights to join our team. This position is only for well qualified individuals who have a can-do attitude and take pride in their work.

Responsibilities

  • Weld, fabricate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to production
  • Maintain welding equipment
  • Read prints, layout, fit-up, welding, quality control
  • Operate other shop equipment (grinder, saw, forklift, crane, plasma torch)

Requirements

  • Drivers License
  • WABO wire or Stick certification
  • Must have own tools
  • Experience working from shop drawings
  • Ability to prepare a materials request order
  • Cut parts to be welded
  • Proficient in welding aluminum, mild steel and stainless
  • Design jigs and fixtures for production items
  • Fabricate products with precision for disassembly and reassembly
  • Travel for installations in the Northwest with per-diem and travel pay
  • Bonus: Knowledge in Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Basic Electrical, Gearing, Conveyor Belts, Sawmill, Production Plant
  • Bonus: Experience fabricating with a wide variety of materials
  • Minimum of 5 years experience in shop
  • Minimum of 5 years in field construction and erection
  • Must have pipe and structural sheet fabrication experience
  • Fluent in reading construction drawings
  • Fluent in fabrication from design drawings
  • Knowledge of basic geometry and algebra for fabrication needs
  • Advanced tool knowledge
  • Ability to visualize a three-dimensional object from 2D flat drawing
  • Good understanding of hardware and its application
  • Strong problem-solving skills

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Full-time position
  • General operating hours are M-Th between 5:00 am – 3:30 pm
  • Weld test required for employment
  • Drug screening required for employment

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Kelso, OR

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Oregon, whose middle half runs $28–$33/hr across 44 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 59% 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 Kelso, OR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Kelso, 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 72 other active welding openings from 49 employers. Browse welding jobs across Oregon.

Welding Shop in Portland, OR currently has 10 other openings live in Oregon, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oregon at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Portland, OR (10), 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 Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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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 / Fitter / Welding / Pipe / Millwright figures were last recalculated when this page was built.