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Welder – Concrete Fleet Maintenance
- Salary$32 - $35 per hour, Benefits: Ongoing opportunity
- LocationWaikato
- Job type Temporary
- Discipline Trades/ Engineering
- Reference314928
Heavy Fabrication Welder – Concrete Fleet Maintenance
Hamilton | $34–$38 per hour | Immediate Start | Weekly Pay
Are you an experienced Heavy Fabrication Welder looking for your next challenge? We're seeking a skilled welder to join a busy workshop maintaining and repairing a large fleet of concrete trucks and heavy transport equipment. If you enjoy hands-on fabrication work and take pride in producing quality repairs, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
Working in a well-equipped workshop, you'll be responsible for repairing, fabricating, and maintaining concrete truck bodies, chutes, barrels, and associated heavy steel components to keep the fleet operating safely and efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
Hamilton | $34–$38 per hour | Immediate Start | Weekly Pay
Are you an experienced Heavy Fabrication Welder looking for your next challenge? We're seeking a skilled welder to join a busy workshop maintaining and repairing a large fleet of concrete trucks and heavy transport equipment. If you enjoy hands-on fabrication work and take pride in producing quality repairs, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
Working in a well-equipped workshop, you'll be responsible for repairing, fabricating, and maintaining concrete truck bodies, chutes, barrels, and associated heavy steel components to keep the fleet operating safely and efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out heavy fabrication and structural welding repairs on concrete trucks and fleet equipment.
- Repair and replace worn or damaged steel components, including chutes, frames, brackets, guards, and structural sections.
- Perform MIG welding on heavy-gauge steel.
- Cut, measure, fabricate, and fit replacement components.
- Operate workshop equipment including welders, grinders, plasma cutters, drills, saws, and oxy-acetylene equipment.
- Complete preventative maintenance and breakdown repairs.
- Inspect completed work to ensure it meets quality and safety standards.
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe workshop environment.
- Work closely with the maintenance team to minimise vehicle downtime.
- Proven experience in heavy fabrication and MIG welding.
- Experience working on heavy transport, construction, earthmoving, or concrete equipment is highly desirable.
- Ability to read and interpret fabrication drawings and measurements.
- Confident using a range of fabrication and workshop machinery.
- Strong attention to detail with pride in producing high-quality workmanship.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Reliable, physically fit, and committed to workplace safety.
- Full Class 1 driver's licence preferred.
- $32–$36 per hour (depending on experience)
- Immediate start
- Weekly pay
- Ongoing full-time opportunity with consistent hours.
- Modern workshop with quality equipment.
- Supportive team environment.