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Welder - Tool Allowance, PTO, Weekly Pay!

WM
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Dec 2025
💰 $48,000/yr

About the role

The pay and benefits you’ll get as a Welder:

  • Starting salary of $24 per hour depending on experience
  • Weekly Pay
  • Overtime available
  • Stable hours for your financial stability
  • Tool allowance worth $400 quarterly
  • Boot allowance worth an additional $150 twice a year
  • Uniforms provided
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including dental, vision and prescription coverage.
  • Annual Education Assistance Benefit available for team members.
  • Company-matched 401(k)
  • Adoption assistance and parent support

These are just a few of our comprehensive benefits for a Welder.  Whether you are planning on building or expanding your family or looking for the next step in your career – WM is there, helping build the best and total you. 

 

The hours and location you’ll work in as a Welder with WM:

  • 1st Shift: 7AM-4PM Monday-Friday, every week
  • No weekends

 

Preferred Qualifications:  MIG welding experience is preferred.


I. Job Summary

Under general supervision, applies appropriate welds to fabricate or repair compactors, containers and carts. 

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
 

  • Performs minor repairs and applies basic welding processes.
  • Repairs compactors, containers and carts.
  • Performs preventive maintenance inspections, diagnostic and repair of electrical and hydraulic systems on compactors.
  • Qualified in the welding processes such as arc welding, gas welding, aluminum welding, brazing, and soft soldering on a variety of materials.
  • Conducts safety checks on compactors and containers.
  • Completes required paperwork utilizing fleet maintenance software program associated with repairing compactors and containers, documenting parts usage, and accounting for repair times.
  • Assists senior welders in the completion of project work.
  • Performs service calls for compactor repair.
  • Performs related work such as flame cutting, bending, forming, beveling, notching of metal and plastic parts.
  • Performs all work within Standard Repair Times (SRTs).
  • Works from prints, drawings and verbal instructions.
  • Performs standard layouts and set-ups of dimensions and tolerances.
  • Utilizes standard shop hand tools, measuring devices and equipment.
  • Performs other maintenance related work as required.
  • Maintains a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.


III. Qualifications 

A. Required Qualifications 
 

  • 2 years of previous experience


B. Preferred Qualifications 

IV. Physical Requirements

Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

V. Benefits 
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site. 

 

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.

ABOUT WM WM (WM.com) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit <

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