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Overview

E-Sector Manufacturing is seeking an experienced Senior Welder / Fabricator to support welding and fabrication operations, ensuring first-time quality and reliable manufacturing processes. The company serves various advanced industrial markets, focusing on complex, high-mix, low-volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Review engineering drawings, welding symbols, material requirements, and fabrication specifications before work begins.
  • Independently plan and complete cutting, forming, fit-up, welding, and assembly for complex components and structures.
  • Perform MIG (GMAW) and AC + DC TIG (GTAW) welding on aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel and other specialty alloys.
  • Select appropriate welding processes, filler materials, joint preparation, and equipment settings.
  • Build and use fixtures and jigs to maintain alignment, dimensional accuracy, and repeatability.
  • Control distortion, shrinkage, fit-up, and surface finish using proven welding and fabrication methods.
  • Operate press brakes and fabrication equipment, and complete cutting, grinding, deburring, and finishing as required.
  • Inspect fit-up, dimensions, weld size, location, appearance, and workmanship throughout fabrication.
  • Use calipers, squares, fillet, gauges, measuring tapes, and other appropriate inspection equipment.
  • Follow applicable Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) and customer quality requirements.

Requirements

  • Significant hands-on welding and fabrication experience in a job-shop, custom fabrication, or high-mix manufacturing environment.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in both MIG (GMAW) and TIG (GTAW) welding.
  • Experience welding aluminum, stainless steel and carbon steel.
  • Strong blueprint-reading skills, including welding symbols and dimensional tolerances.
  • Ability to independently fabricate complex parts and assemblies from engineering drawings.
  • Experience with layout, cutting, forming, fit-up, welding, grinding, finishing, and final assembly.
  • Strong understanding of weld distortion, heat control, joint preparation, and welding techniques.
  • Practical experience with press brakes, cutting equipment, grinders, and related fabrication tools.
  • Ability to build and use fixtures or jigs for accurate, repeatable fit-up.
  • Practical dimensional inspection and weld documentation experience.
  • Ability to independently diagnose and correct welding defects and fabrication problems.
  • Ability to successfully complete applicable AWS welding qualification tests (D1.1, D1.4, 3G, 4G, 6G).
  • Experience using calipers to hold tight tolerances at weld assemblies.
  • Strong organization, communication, accountability, attention to detail, and safe work practices.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Full-time, on-site position in Sanford, Florida.
  • Day shift with overtime opportunities.
  • Compensation ranges from $25-$35 an hour, based on experience and demonstrated capabilities.

Benefits

401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Orlando, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Florida — toward the top of a $22–$28/hr middle band drawn from 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 91% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Orlando, FL

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Orlando, FL right now, from 9 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 257 other active welding openings from 133 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Orlando, or widen the search to 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 and TIG 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 welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.
  • 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.
  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

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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