Welder Fabricator

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Summary: We are seeking a skilled Welder/Fabricator to join our fabrication department. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where you'll cut, drill, fit, join, weld, and repair steel components while working collaboratively across multiple fabrication processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Welding & Fabrication: Hand weld and fabricate various metal parts in flat, horizontal, and vertical positions, ensuring compliance with shop welding requirements and codes
• Equipment Operation: Set up, adjust, and operate welding equipment by managing gas flow, wire feed rate, and heat settings according to standard practices
• Assembly: Assemble parts in fixtures or jigs to precise specifications
• Quality Control: Inspect work for defects, quality, and dimensional requirements; make timely corrections to ensure proper alignment and conformance to specifications
• Machine Shop Operations: Operate various equipment including saws, grinders, drills, and other fabrication tools as needed
• Equipment Maintenance: Perform minor equipment maintenance and replace consumables such as nozzles, contact tips, weld wire spools, rods, gas bottles, and gauges
• Blueprint Reading: Work from shop drawings, blueprints, sketches, work orders, and verbal instructions
• Safety & Housekeeping: Maintain a clean, orderly work area and follow all OSHA regulations and safe work practices
• Record Keeping: Perform routine documentation as required
• Communication: Notify supervisor immediately of faulty equipment or defective materials

Qualifications

Required:

• Welding experience in multiple positions (flat, horizontal, vertical)
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, shop drawings, and sketches
• Proficiency with hand tools and fabrication equipment
• Strong attention to detail and quality
• Understanding of OSHA safety regulations
• Reliable attendance

Preferred:

• Experience with various welding processes
• Machine shop equipment operation experience
• Knowledge of welding codes and standards

Work Environment: This position is located in an active industrial manufacturing and distribution center with moderate to high noise levels, temperature variations, and material handling equipment in operation. The role may require extended periods of standing or walking on concrete floors and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety glasses and steel-toed boots. The fast-paced environment involves time-sensitive and safety sensitive operations and may include various shift schedules to support production and distribution needs.

Benefits We Offer:

• Health, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off; increases with years of service
• Generous Employee Discount on home furnishings
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Tuition Assistance
• Ashley Wellness Centers (location specific)
• 401(k) and Profit Sharing
• Life Insurance

Our Core Values:

• Honesty & Integrity: Acts with transparency, discretion, and ethical judgment. Trusted to handle sensitive information and provide accurate, unbiased insights.
• Dirty Fingernail: Takes full accountability for outcomes, not just tasks. Inspects details, ensures data accuracy, and follows through to completion.
• Continuous Improvement: Actively seeks better ways to improve templates, tools, and processes. Learns from prior initiatives and embeds lessons into standard work.
• Growth & Results Focus: Understands how transformation initiatives drive growth, cost reduction, and profitability. Keeps work aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Culture of Leadership: Leads through influence, reliability, and example. Builds trust across functions and supports leaders at every level.
• Customer-Centric & Boundaryless: Works across silos for the greater good of the organization. Ensures outputs meet the needs of executives, initiative owners, and teams.
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrates strong organizational discipline, attention to detail, and the ability to translate ambiguity into clear, executable tools.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide a drug-free working environment. While Ashley appreciates the interest of all candidates only those meeting specific position requirements may be contacted. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. The company reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.

Notice to Search Firms: We are not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. We will not pay any placement, referral or other fees to any search firms unless we have agreed otherwise in a valid, written agreement for the specific position posted and signed by an authorized representative of Ashley Furniture Industries.

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