**Job Title: Welder and Fabricator** **Job Description** We are seeking a skilled Welder and Fabricator to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for welding and fabricating metal components using various techniques including MIG and TIG welding. This role requires precision, attention to detail, and a commitment to safety. **Responsibilities** + Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. + Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work. + Remove rough spots from workpieces using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers. + Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending using torches or heating furnaces. + Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter. + Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. + Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary. + Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. + Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials. + Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments. + Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations. + Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding. + Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment. + Clean or degrease parts using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths. + Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure to obtain desired flames. + Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives. + Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors. + Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques. **Essential Skills** + Proficiency in MIG and TIG welding. + Experience with laser operation. + Ability to read and interpret blueprints. + Familiarity with precision measuring instruments like micrometers and calipers. + Experience in metal fabrication. + Knowledge of press brake operation. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Ability to analyze engineering drawings and specifications. + Skill in using various hand and power tools for welding and fabrication. **Why Work Here?** Join a growing company where the owners are actively involved. There are ample opportunities to learn new skillsets and advance your career. **Work Environment** Work in a machine shop equipped with high-level, state-of-the-art equipment including 3 new Trumpf Flat Lasers, a Trumpf 2 Story Multi-Laser, 2 new Fiber Tube Lasers, 3 new Trumpf Press Brakes, and a new Weld Booth. The company is continuously growing and upgrading its equipment. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $25.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Hartford,WI. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Mar 4, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.