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Overview

Lake Air Products is a fast-growing contract manufacturer serving various markets, including medical and aerospace. They are seeking a 2nd Shift welder for their New Hope, MN location, particularly someone with TIG/MIG experience who enjoys hands-on work.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, position, and secure parts and assemblies according to specifications.
  • Observe tests on welded surfaces, such as hydrostatic, x-ray, and dimension tolerance.
  • Develop templates or tooling and other work aids to hold and align parts.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Examine finished products and spare parts and compare them with samples to check specifications.
  • Inspect grooves, angles, or gap allowances using measuring instruments.
  • Weld metal using gas tungsten arc, metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and other types of welding arcs.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • 7+ years of experience in TIG, MIG, and Tack-weld (TIG welding preferred).
  • Excellent people skills with an ability to partner with a dynamic leadership team.
  • Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a commitment to the mission.
  • Ability to weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Lift objects up to 50 pounds throughout the day.
  • Wear required personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Reading blueprints and performing all necessary measurements.

Benefits

  • Competitive Pay
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 2nd Shift position
  • Location: New Hope, MN

Benefits

Competitive Pay
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How this job compares in New Hope, MN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Minnesota currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$30/hr across 37 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in New Hope, MN

New Hope, MN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 65 other active welding openings from 39 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in New Hope, or widen the search to Minnesota.

Lake Air Products currently has 7 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 (7), Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN (5), and Aerotek (5). 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.

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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 C (2nd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.