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Starting pay range: $20.03 – 27.04 (additional 7% shift differential for second shift)
Work location: Wamego, KS
Openings available on first or second shift.
First Shift: Monday – Thursday 5:00am – 3:30pm
Second Shift: – Monday - Thursday, 3:30pm- 2:00am
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
At the Solar Turbines facility in Wamego, Kansas, we take pride in working together to safely build quality products for our customers to help them succeed.
If you’re ready to weld with purpose and grow with a company that’s powering the future, Solar Wamego is the place to be.
At Solar’s Wamego facility, welders aren’t just fabricators — they’re precision craftsmen shaping the future of energy. In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience with Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG), using .035 wire to tack and weld parts in flat and horizontal positions. You’ll also work with robotic welding systems and GTAW (TIG), expanding your capabilities through training and experience.
But welding here isn’t just about joining metal — it’s about building to blueprint. You’ll read and interpret engineering drawings, fabricate parts to spec, and follow standard work processes in a team-focused environment. Collaboration is key, and your input matters.
You’ll also be trained to operate jib and overhead cranes, manually positioning heavy fabrications in one- and two-person stalls. It’s a role that blends technical skill and teamwork — all in a facility that values safety, growth, and craftsmanship.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines, with more than 16,000 units and over 3 billion operating hours in over 100 countries. Products from Solar Turbines play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world. Solar Turbines’ products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1,590 to 52,500 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts). Solar’s customers put the company’s products to work in many areas including production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar’s foundation is people and Solar’s culture is one where individual contributions are valued, diversity in the workplace is encouraged, and safety is emphasized in all aspects of the business. Solar Turbines, founded in 1927, is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team.
