Welder

Location

Ontario, OH

Wage

$27.85/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on November 9, 2026

Job Description

Total Talent Solutions

Now hiring for a Welder

Location: Ontario, OH

Pay Rate: $27.85 per hour

Schedule: Monday – Friday from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM.

Training: Monday – Friday from 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Welding Pros, Let’s Talk! Welders Wanted

The Certified Welder is responsible for fabricating, welding, and inspecting pressure vessels, tanks, and industrial actuator components in accordance with ASME standards and company quality requirements. This role requires advanced welding skills, blueprint interpretation, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to safety.

If your skills and experience are a good match for this role please apply today. This opportunity is based on a Welder career path and is being offered by Staffmark to qualified candidates.

Job Duties

  • Fabricate and weld pressure vessels, tanks, and actuator components to engineering specifications and ASME standards.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, engineering drawings, and work instructions.
  • Set up, position, and secure fixtures, materials, and components for fabrication and welding.
  • Perform precision welds that meet strict quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
  • Participate in quality inspections throughout the manufacturing process.
  • Complete first article inspections and verify product specifications before production begins.
  • Measure and inspect finished work to ensure dimensional accuracy and structural integrity.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, quality records, and welding traceability requirements.
  • Apply personal identification markings to completed welds for accountability and quality tracking.
  • Maintain active welding certifications and required continuity records.
  • Work with quality inspectors, internal evaluators, and third-party testing organizations as needed.
  • Follow all safety procedures when working with welding equipment, heavy materials, elevated temperatures, and industrial gases.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
  • Collaborate with production, engineering, and quality teams to meet production schedules and customer requirements.

Education Requirements

  • Vocational training, welding certification, or technical education is beneficial.
  • High School Diploma or GED equivalent.

Experience Requirements

  • Ability to read blueprints, welding symbols, and fabrication drawings.
  • Knowledge of welding equipment setup, welding techniques, and safe operating procedures.
  • Ability to accurately measure, fit, and prepare materials prior to welding.
  • Strong attention to detail with a commitment to quality workmanship and workplace safety.
  • 2-3 years of industrial welding experience, preferably involving pressure vessels, tanks, structural fabrication, or similar heavy manufacturing.
  • Ability to successfully pass site-specific welding certification testing during onboarding.
  • Ability to read and interpret complex blueprints, engineering drawings, and technical specifications.
  • Strong understanding of welding quality standards and inspection requirements.
  • Commitment to maintaining required welding certifications and compliance standards.
  • Ability to perform physically demanding work, including lifting materials, standing for extended periods, and working in a manufacturing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Current or previous ASME Section IX welding certifications.
  • AWS (American Welding Society) welding certifications.
  • Experience welding pressure vessels, tanks, or other code-regulated equipment.
  • Experience in custom fabrication or low-volume, high-complexity manufacturing environments.
  • Familiarity with first article inspections and quality control processes.
  • Experience maintaining welding continuity logs and certification documentation.
  • Knowledge of pressure vessel codes, regulatory standards, and inspection requirements.
  • Experience working with third-party quality inspections and certification testing.

Benefits

  • Competitive Weekly Pay
  • Comprehensive Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life Insurance and Disability Insurance for added peace of mind.
  • Optional 401(k) Plan to help you prepare for the future.
  • Safety-Focused Manufacturing Environment with opportunities for skill development and career growth.

“My recruiter is so kind, she has an excellent attitude and focuses on my needs” -Hilario, Staffmark Associate

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What You Will Do

As a Welder you will prepare materials, set up welding equipment, perform MIG welding operations, inspect completed welds, read blueprints, verify measurements, and help fabricate metal components according to engineering specifications. You will maintain welding equipment, follow quality standards, and support safe, efficient manufacturing operations while producing consistent, high-quality work.

  • Fabricate and weld pressure vessels, tanks, and actuator components to engineering specifications and ASME standards.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, engineering drawings, and work instructions.
  • Set up, position, and secure fixtures, materials, and components for fabrication and welding.
  • Perform precision welds that meet strict quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
  • Participate in quality inspections throughout the manufacturing process.
  • Complete first article inspections and verify product specifications before production begins.
  • Measure and inspect finished work to ensure dimensional accuracy and structural integrity.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, quality records, and welding traceability requirements.
  • Apply personal identification markings to completed welds for accountability and quality tracking.
  • Maintain active welding certifications and required continuity records.
  • Work with quality inspectors, internal evaluators, and third-party testing organizations as needed.
  • Follow all safety procedures when working with welding equipment, heavy materials, elevated temperatures, and industrial gases.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
  • Collaborate with production, engineering, and quality teams to meet production schedules and customer requirements.

The Welder plays an important role in manufacturing by producing quality welded assemblies that support a wide range of industrial applications. This position requires technical welding ability, mechanical aptitude, and a commitment to safe work practices.

Successful Welder candidates understand welding equipment, metal fabrication, blueprint reading, and quality standards while maintaining productivity and consistent workmanship. Strong attention to detail contributes to successful fabrication outcomes.

This role rewards individuals who enjoy craftsmanship and hands-on manufacturing work.

Benefits

401k
Dental
Vision

How this job compares in Ontario, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio, whose middle half runs $24–$30/hr across 48 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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 Ontario, OH

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Ontario, OH, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 104 other active welding openings from 68 employers. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

Staffmark currently has 2 other openings live in Ohio, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TP Mechanical (8), Welding Shop in Columbus, OH (4), and Component Repair Technologies (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. 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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.