**🔧 Now Hiring: TIG Welder/Fabricator – First Shift** 📍Location: Cheektowaga, NY 🕒Schedule: Monday–Thursday, 10-hour shifts (3-day weekends!) 💵Pay: **$25–$30/hr+ (based on experience)** 📌Direct Hire | Custom Projects | Expanding Company **👋** **_Join a Team That Builds More Than Just Metal_** We’re looking for a skilled and dependable **_Welder and Fabricator_** to join our growing fabrication team! This is a direct opportunity with a company that’s expanding and investing in its people, equipment, and facilities. You’ll work on custom, one-of-a-kind projects in a clean, well-organized shop that values precision, safety, and teamwork. If you take pride in your craft and want to be part of a company that’s going places—this is your chance. **🔨** **_What You’ll Do_** + Read and interpret blueprints, fabrication drawings, and welding instructions + Perform layout and fitting of components + TIG and Flux Core weld stainless and carbon steel + Grind and finish surfaces to spec + Learn to operate forklifts and overhead cranes **✅** **_What You Bring_** + Proven TIG welding experience + Ability to read blueprints and set up welding equipment + Familiarity with MIG and Flux Core welding + A strong work ethic and attention to detail **🎁** **_Why Work Here?_** + Generous Paid Time Off: Start the year with PTO and paid holidays + Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, and more + Financial Security: 401(k) with match, pension plan, company-paid life & disability insurance + Work-Life Balance: 4-day workweek = long weekends, every week + Top-Notch Facility: Clean, bright, and thoughtfully organized shop + All Custom Work: No mass production—every project is unique + Growing Company: We’re expanding our business and building for the future **🚀** **_Ready to Build Something Great?_** **_Apply now_** _and take the next step in your welding career with a company that values your skills and supports your growth._ **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $45760.00 - $60320.00/yr. -Generous paid time off front loaded each year as well as 80 hour of holiday pay each year. -Four medical plan options to choose from -Health savings account with annual company contribution -Flexible spending account/Dependent spending account -Company paid dental plan with buy up option -Voluntary vision plan -Company paid basic life coverage with AD&D -Option to purchase additional voluntary life insurance -Voluntary short term and long term disability coverage -Voluntary accident coverage -Voluntary specified disease coverage -Option to contribute to a 401k plan with company match -Future eligibility to participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) -Cash balance pension plan eligibility **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Tonawanda,NY. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Jul 28, 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 meets 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, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.