WELDER FABRICATOR

About The Role

The Welder/Fabricator is responsible for assembling, fitting, and welding metal components into finished products and subassemblies according to blueprints and engineering specifications. This role involves operating fabrication equipment, using hand and power tools, and ensuring all work meets quality, dimensional, and safety standards. The position also includes material handling, layout work, and finishing tasks to support efficient production operations in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, fit, and weld parts to form units or subassemblies using blueprints, jigs, and hand tools
• Study engineering drawings and layouts to determine material requirements and sequence of work
• Move, lift, and position materials using cranes, hoists, or manual handling methods
• Lay out, mark, and verify workpieces using measuring tools such as squares, rulers, and tape measures
• Tack-weld, cut, grind, and prepare metal components to meet specification requirements
• Operate fabrication equipment including brakes, shears, rollers, drill presses, grinders, and cutting torches
• Straighten, shape, and adjust metal parts using hammers, presses, torches, and other hand tools
• Set up and use jigs, fixtures, face blocks, and templates for accurate assembly and fabrication
• Remove defects such as high spots and bevel edges using grinding, filing, and cutting tools
• Ensure all finished work meets quality and dimensional standards through inspection and adjustment

Requirements

• Three (3) years welding/fabrication experience required
• Ability to read blueprints and drawings
• Ability to use measuring devices, such as calipers, micrometers, tape measures, depth gauges, and fixed gauges

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented
• Safety-conscious
• Able to work independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced production setting

Skills

• Blueprint reading ability
• Solid measuring skills
• Hands-on experience producing accurate, high-quality welds and assemblies

Benefits

At Wells, you’re part of a team that takes pride in building something that lasts. Whether you’re in operations, a manufacturing facility, or out in the field, your work plays a direct role in creating quality structures that support our communities. We value hard work, reliability, and teamwork because getting the job done right requires teamwork. With a strong focus on safety, collaboration, and ingenuity, we create an environment where you can build your experience, contribute to meaningful work, and make an impact.

We provide a competitive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, company-paid disability and life insurance, wellness incentives, paid holidays, PTO, flexible spending accounts, HSA options, a 401(k) with profit sharing, access to Nice Healthcare, employee assistance resources, pet insurance, and additional voluntary coverage such as critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity plans. Health and family care leave is available to both union and non-union employees. Union employee benefits are provided through separate collective bargaining agreements.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements

• Ability to perform physically demanding work, including lifting up to 75 lbs occasionally and frequent bending, climbing, kneeling, twisting, squatting, crawling, and repetitive hand/arm use
• Capable of standing, walking, and moving throughout the facility for extended shifts of up to 12 hours
• Comfortable working at heights using ladders, scaffolding, swing stages, and man lifts frequently
• Willingness to work in varying environmental conditions, including wet, hot, humid, and cold weather, and outdoors (Depending on location)
• Ability to wear all required PPE, including but not limited to safety boots, safety glasses, hearing protection, high visibility vest, hard hat, and other PPE as required by the task, department, or work area

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Wells participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your I-9 Form information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.