Job Title
Welder and Fabricator
Join our team as a Welder and Fabricator, where you will play a crucial role in supporting various industries, including the timber sector. You will be responsible for welding, fitting, and fabricating structural steel, while working with blueprints. Utilize your skills to operate fabrication equipment such as torches, saws, and grinders, and handle materials using overhead cranes. This position offers day shifts from 5am to 3:30pm, Monday through Friday.
Responsibilities
Weld, fit, and fabricate structural steel components.
Read and interpret blueprints to guide fabrication work.
Operate fabrication equipment including torches, saws, and grinders.
Use overhead cranes and material handling equipment effectively.
Essential Skills
Experience in structural steel welding and fabrication.
Proficiency in FCAW welding techniques.
Ability to read and understand blueprints.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience with flux core welding.
Proficiency in MIG welding.
Skill in fitting and fabricating complex steel structures.
Why Work Here?
Our company is on a growth trajectory, expecting to double in size, providing ample opportunities for professional development and advancement. As a job shop, we offer a dynamic work setting where tasks change daily, preventing monotony. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work culture that values its employees.
Work Environment
You will work in a heavy industrial environment with large parts being machined. Our spacious machine shop currently has a small team, creating an open and airy atmosphere. Despite its size, the shop is bustling with activity and poised for growth, with plans to double the team size. Safety is a priority, and personal protective equipment such as steel-toed boots, safety glasses, gloves, and ear plugs is mandatory.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Portland, Oregon.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $34.00 - $36.00/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
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 Portland, OR.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 3, 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 meet 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, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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