Hire a production welder in Greater Montreal
A welder posting brings back very different profiles: construction welders, robot operators, one-off job shop welders. NOC 72106 puts them all under one code. This page gives you a production welder job description to copy, the requirements that actually filter, and eight questions to check print reading, process and fit-up.
Job description to copy
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Production welder
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $28/h in Quebec (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Interpret prints, detail drawings, welding symbols and welding procedures.
- Check part preparation and lay out reference points and lines.
- Set parts in jigs and hold them in position to the print.
- Prepare joints by bevelling, grinding and cleaning.
- Set up the welding station: voltage, current, wire feed speed and gas flow.
- Weld to the processes and positions set out in the procedure (GMAW, FCAW, SMAW or GTAW).
- Follow a welding sequence that limits distortion, and straighten parts when needed.
- Check welds and parts visually and dimensionally, and repair defects by gouging or grinding.
- Carry out basic maintenance on the station and follow the shop’s SIMDUT rules.
- Cut parts with a cutting torch, and bevel or gouge to prepare or repair a weld.
Requirements
- DEP Soudage-assemblage (5382) or Soudage-montage (5195), or more than three years’ experience with specialized welding training (NOC 72106).
- Reading prints and welding symbols.
- Command of the process and positions your welding procedures call for.
- Able to pass the CWB qualification test under CSA W47.1, if your plant is certified.
- Current SIMDUT 2015 training — Quebec’s version of WHMIS — required by the CNESST for anyone exposed to hazardous products.
- Confirmed availability for the shift posted.
- Tolerance for heat, noise, fumes and radiation, the hazards Quebec names for this trade.
Assets
- Assembleur-soudeur qualification certificate issued by Emploi-Québec.
- Red Seal endorsement, useful if you run sites outside Quebec.
- Experience building welding jigs.
- Experience setting up or monitoring a robotic welding cell.
- AEP in semi-automatic GMAW and FCAW welding (4250 or 4750), if your production is mostly semi-automatic.
- Quebec’s Certificat en soudage sur appareils sous pression, classe A, the pressure equipment welding certificate, valid two years, if you build pressure equipment.
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Production welder pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $28/h | — |
| Montérégie | $28/h | $28.15 (159) |
| Montréal | Quebec figures | $28.50 (37) |
| Laval | $27/h | $25.25 (11) |
| Lanaudière | $28/h | $27.50 (57) |
| Laurentides | $28/h | $28 (27) |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 72106) and median offered in job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings.
Eight interview questions
- Read this welding symbol: what type of weld, on which side of the joint, and what size?
- This part is likely to distort. In what order do you weld the joints, and why?
- Which processes and positions did you weld every day in your last job, and on what thicknesses?
- Have you ever designed or built a jig? Describe it and tell me what it controlled.
- Your CWB qualification: which process, which position, which classification, and for which certified company?
- Your weld comes out porous. What do you check first on the station and on the gas?
- How do you make sure the assembly matches the print before you run the final weld?
- Which shifts are you available for, and do you come from series production, one-off work or construction?
Timelines and difficulties
The problem is not always the number of candidates: Job Bank rates the outlook Limited in Montréal and notes that experienced workers are already looking for jobs. The hard part is sorting. NOC 72106 puts the construction welder, the robot operator and the welder-assembler under one code, and all of them write welder on a résumé. Outside pressure work, the trade is not regulated in plants, so no card sorts candidates for you. A candidate’s CWB qualification is only valid with the certified company that qualified them: build the test on your own procedures into your hiring timeline. If you build pressure equipment, the Régie du bâtiment du Québec also requires a company qualification and a personal qualification for each welder, issued by Emploi-Québec: check it before the interview. Résumés also carry two DEP names, Soudage-montage and Soudage-assemblage: the former program and the one that replaced it. Name the processes, positions, thicknesses and share of fit-up in the posting: that is what makes the right people answer.
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