Lead Welder/Fabricator

Lead Welder/Fabricator

Oroville, CA

Description

ICM Solutions, a leader in crushing, underground mining rebuild, and white paving equipment, service, and solutions, is seeking an experienced Lead Welder/Fabricator to lead daily fabrication and welding operations at our Oroville, CA facility. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for overseeing the production of structural steel and heavy equipment assemblies, ensuring quality workmanship, maintaining a safe work environment, and supporting on-time project delivery.

The ideal candidate is a highly skilled fabricator who takes pride in producing quality work, solving complex fabrication challenges, and mentoring others. You'll play a critical role in building large-scale industrial equipment while helping drive a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do:

• Lead day-to-day fabrication and welding operations

• Interpret blueprints, weld symbols, and fabrication drawings

• Layout, fit, and assemble large structural steel components

• Ensure products meet engineering, quality, and customer specifications

• Inspect work to reduce rework and maintain high first-pass quality

• Troubleshoot fabrication challenges and coordinate solutions with management

• Promote and enforce a safety-first culture

• Mentor and train welders and fitters

• Coordinate labor, materials, and shop resources to meet production schedules

Requirements

• 5+ years of structural steel fabrication and welding experience

• Strong blueprint reading and weld symbol interpretation skills

• Experience fabricating large weldments and structural steel assemblies

• Proficiency with industrial welding processes

• Ability to fit and fabricate with minimal supervision

• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS welding certifications

• Experience building large steel structures or heavy equipment

• Knowledge of welding procedures and quality standards

• Lean manufacturing or continuous improvement experience

Why Join ICM Solutions?

• Work on challenging, large-scale fabrication and heavy equipment projects that showcase your skills.

• Take on a leadership role where your expertise directly influences quality, safety, and production success.

• Join a team that values craftsmanship, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Enjoy a competitive benefits package that includes health insurance, paid vacation, sick time, 401(k) with company match, and other valuable employee benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

Salary Description

$30 - $35 / hour

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)