Welder Fitter
FlexTrades is seeking skilled Welder Fitters for project-based assignments across the country. If you have strong blueprint reading, fitting, and tack welding skills in a structural steel environment, this is your opportunity to earn top pay, guaranteed overtime, and full benefits while working on impactful industrial projects.
Job Requirements
- Fitting is A LOT of measuring, laying out, fitting, and tacking! There is no full seam welding, it’s just tack welding and then full seam welds are done by welders in the facility.
- This role is required to fit and tack the structural steel and materials that then get put into the welding area for full seam welding.
- Fitting skills are CRITICAL.
- Tack welding is done with MIG welding, .045” electrodes as well as Flux Core wire. Spray transfer.
- Structural materials: shear plates (3/8” to ½” thick), clip angles, channels, depth plates, end plates, girders, beams, columns, gussets, doublers, etc.
- Fitters are tacking piece parts onto large structural items such as girders, beams, columns gussets, doublers, etc. These piece parts include structural tube, shear plates (3/8” to ½”), clip angles, depth plates, and end plates.
- Fitters may also weld on tube steel (rectangular and square) to plates and caps (no tube to tube).
- All pieces Fitters are tacking onto the large structural items are attached for bolt connections which are needed down the line and during assembly/installation in the field.
- All materials are ready for fitting ops and are either provided by suppliers or processed in the facility on brakes, drills, plasma cutters, shears, saws, and/or camber machines.
- Welders are welding all of the tacked items from Fitters and also full structural materials.
- The thickness of materials range from 3/16” to 3”, depending upon where someone is working. Most items Fitters are working with are go to a max of 1” in thickness.
- Most items are mild steel.
- In tacking and fitting, this is just tack welds so mostly single passes.
- Reference materials: blueprints/drawings and WPSs.
- All measurements are in inch/standard/imperial, not metric.
- MUST be solid in reading and working from blueprints only.
- MUST be solid in measurements and layout to ensure all items are tacked and fitted to spec.
- Weld joints can vary depending upon what is being welded so any and all types of weld joints under the fillet and groove weld categories could occur.
- Fitters are working in the flat position.
- Quality: must do high-quality work.
- Operating overhead cranes for both material movement and grabbing materials at the beginning of the shift. All cranes are 5T overhead cranes.
- Tools: must bring a chipping hammer.
Compensation & Benefits
- Pay: $30/hour
- Guaranteed Overtime Each Week paid at time and a half
- Access to a full suite of benefits
- Paid travel expenses to and from job sites
- Paid lodging (Single-Occupancy Hotel Room)
- Per diem ($45/day)
- Flexibility to take time off between assignments
- Ability to perform tasks with little to no supervision
- Ability to travel and commit to assignments ranging from 3 months to 1 year
- Ability to work 2nd and 3rd shifts, including overtime for the duration of the assignment (50+ hours/week)
- Must meet drug test requirements
- FlexTrades is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.
- Job Types: Contract
About FlexTrades
FlexTrades is a manufacturing workforce solutions company that deploys skilled tradespeople and technical specialists to worksites across the United States. We help manufacturers protect quality, reduce scrap, and maintain production flow by placing experienced professionals who are ready to contribute on day one.
Our teams support medical device manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, energy, and precision industrial operations. When compliance, accuracy, and documentation matter, FlexTrades delivers.
Apply today and bring your inspection expertise to projects where precision is non-negotiable.
FlexTrades is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
