Description AI is changing the world. Want to help build the technology behind it? It starts with skilled people who assemble, test, and manufacture the equipment powering tomorrow's technology.Join our team and help build advanced AI hardware used by leading companies around the world. Whether you're an assembler, machine operator, technician, quality inspector, or production professional, your work will directly contribute to shaping the future. OVERVIEW Cadrex is searching for a Welder II to use Manual Welding skills to manufacture weldments to defined specifications, workmanship standards and production schedule. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Prepare and set up necessary tools and equipment for welding jobs • Arrange parts for welding and staging processes • Perform quality inspection/checks per quality documentation/control plan (including documentation of results) • Detect and report defective materials or questionable conditions to the Lead • Maintain work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follows prescribed safety procedures • Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Write simple correspondence • Uphold site efficiency standards • Learn and demonstrate continuous improvement for Safety and Quality standards and procedures • Perform other duties as requested by the Lead • Assist in other work areas as assigned • Understand welding symbols, print tolerances and quality measuring equipment • Work completely independently without supervision • Trouble shoot and resolve issues in assigned work center • Produce quality work at company standard efficiency level for assigned work center • Cross trained in multiple workstations Requirements REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS • 1+ years in a metal manufacturing setting, strongly preferred • Ability to pass AWS certifications for TIG welding (Stainless steel, aluminum and galvanized), required • Possess a basic understanding of welding symbols, print tolerances and quality measuring equipment, required • Meet or exceed company PPM level standards by consistently producing quality work, required • Obtain and maintain weld certifications in two or more welding processes specific to employee’s location, required • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals • Ability to read and interpret prints and work orders • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions EDUCATION • High School Diploma LOCATION • Onsite; Bloomingdale, IL SCHEDULE • 2nd Shift TOTAL COMPENSATION INCLUDES • Health/dental/vision coverage • Employer-paid and supplemental life insurance • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Generous paid time off and holiday pay • Monthly remote work stipend (for remote employees who qualify) • 401(k) investment plan, with an employer match of up to 4% • Education support program • Safety eyeglasses/shoe reimbursement • Referral bonuses • Bonus plan for all full-time employees WORK ENVIRONMENT • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to the risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud. PHYSICAL DEMANDS • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. CADREX’S CORE VALUES • Safety first, rising to the challenge, collaboration, accountability, and doing the right thing ABOUT USCADREX Manufacturing Solutions is a leading provider of complex sheet metal and machined production parts, assemblies, and weldments for a variety of end markets, including electrical transmission and distribution, warehouse automation, technology, aerospace & defense, medical, food, and industrials. With locations in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Monterrey Mexico, CADREX offers numerous in-house manufacturing capabilities, including laser cutting, sheet metal fabrication, complex assembly, CNC punching, CNC machining, forming, robotic welding, stamping, fastener insertion, and tool and die manufacturing, to effectively serve customers with lights-out manufacturing capabilities for mid- to high-volume production. For more information, visit www.cadrex.com. Cadrex provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.