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Mig Welder

TOPS Staffing
  • Ambridge, PA
  • $22–$25 Per Hour
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Job Description

Position: MIG Welder l

Location: Ambridge, PA

Pay: $22.00–$25.00 per hour

Second-Shift Differential: Additional $4.00 per hour

Employment Type: Direct Hire: Full-time Employee on Day 1!

Available Shifts: 4-Day work week on all shifts!

  • 1st Shift: Monday–Thursday, (5:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.)
  • 2nd Shift: Monday–Thursday, (3:30 p.m.–2:00 a.m.)–(Additional $4.00 per hour Shift Differential)

What You’ll Do:

As a MIG Welder, you’ll be responsible for fitting, fabricating, joining, and repairing steel components used in large, industrial welded assemblies. Your expertise will ensure the production of structurally sound, high-quality welds in a fast-paced manufacturing setting. You'll follow blueprints and welding specifications, prepare materials, set up equipment, and sometimes assist with robotic welders—ensuring safety and precision at every step.

Required Skills:

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Proficiency with measuring tools (tape measures, calipers, micrometers)
  • Ability to interpret blueprints and welding symbols
  • Experience setting up and operating MIG welding equipment
  • Ability to operate forklifts and overhead cranes (certifications preferred)
  • Strong attention to detail and quality standards
  • Ability to pass and maintain MIG welding certification
  • Basic problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate effectively in English

Nice to Have Skills:

  • Previous vocational training or apprenticeship experience in welding or fabrication
  • Experience working with robotic welding equipment
  • Knowledge of manufacturing safety procedures

Preferred Education and Experience:

  • High school diploma or GED
  • Prior MIG welding, fabrication, or related vocational training
  • Experience in industrial manufacturing environments

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to stand, walk, and lift materials consistently throughout the shift
  • Ability to lift 25–50 pounds repeatedly and work in an industrial environment with varying temperatures and loud machinery
  • Bring your own weld hood and steel-toe boots for the weld test and interview process

Work Environment:

This position operates in an industrial metal-fabrication facility. Employees may be exposed to:

  • Changing indoor and outdoor temperatures.
  • Loud machinery, welding equipment, and vibration.
  • Moving mechanical equipment and electrical hazards.
  • High temperatures, sparks, and hot metal.
  • Welding fumes, odors, dust, mist, gases, and areas with limited ventilation.
  • Chemicals, oils, cutting fluids, and other substances that may contact the skin or become airborne.

Outstanding Benefits:

  • Uniforms provided

  • Lunch/Break room with real food vending machines

  • Equipment vending machines throughout the facility with tools and PPE (Free)

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • 401(k) retirement plan

  • Paid holidays

  • Long-term career stability

  • Unique PTO program where unused vacation carries over year after year, allowing employees to build significant paid time off over their career

  • Supportive management team that values preventative maintenance instead of simply reacting to breakdowns

  • Medical coverage for preventive care is 100% covered- $0 deductible

  • Medical yearly deductible for a single employee-$750

  • Medical yearly deductible for employee + family- $1,500

  • Basic Life Insurance and AD&D--100% employer paid (coverage amount is 2x your base salary)

  • Short Term & Long Term Disability Coverage--100% employer paid

You should be proficient in:

  • Blueprint Reading

Machines & technologies you'll use:

  • MIG Welder

Numbers & Facts

LocationAmbridge, PA
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Salary$22–$25 Per Hour
Company Size50 to 99 employees
Year Founded1987
Websitehttp://www.topsjobs.com/#/

About Company

TOPS Staffing, LLC is strictly centered on providing light technical and skilled assembly level people in the area. Our niche allows us to focus on doing one job and one job only, to find your company long standing temporary or permanent employees. We believe a personal interview of every candidate assures the right choice. We accomplish this through our internal recruiters and they are accented by a full-time outside recruiter as well. Additionally, for your payroll service needs, we offer our electronic on-boarding process allows for streamline sign-up of any employee that will create efficiencies in your workforce. You will simply experience no down time.

Skills

  • Blueprintsunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Craneunmatched
  • Detail Orientedunmatched
  • Electrical Componentsunmatched
  • English Languageunmatched
  • Forkliftunmatched
  • High School Diplomaunmatched
  • Lift/Move 25 Poundsunmatched
  • Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
  • Quality Metricsunmatched
  • Safety Processunmatched
  • Weldingunmatched

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