Train for a Welding and Fabrication Career Near Temperance, Michigan
Unsure about your next step after high school or thinking about a career change? Welding for Temperance, Michigan residents, offers a creative, practical, and high-demand path that lets you earn while you learn. At Swanton Welding, you’ll gain practical experience, learn top industry techniques, and work on engaging projects while starting a career that doesn’t require student loans and provides opportunities for advancement for years ahead.
A career that blends creativity, job stability, and growth potential can feel hard to find, especially if avoiding student loan debt is a priority. Many high school graduates and those changing careers struggle to discover a path that lets them earn income while building valuable skills at the same time. Welding and fabrication help solve this problem, delivering hands-on training, competitive pay, and clear opportunities for advancement. At Swanton Welding, we provide residents of Temperance, Michigan with the instruction, guidance, and resources to help you build a lasting career.
Real-World Experience That Builds Your Future
Unlike traditional education paths, welding and fabrication give you the chance to build skills while working on actual projects. At Swanton Welding, you’ll start gaining hands-on experience immediately. Our programs are designed to teach through doing, allowing you to apply MIG, TIG, and Stick welding techniques to real jobsite work right away.
You will train alongside skilled welders and fabricators who support you through every step of your development. This mentorship ensures you learn proper methods, safety standards, and industry expectations while gaining confidence in your abilities.
We also place a strong focus on versatility. You’ll work with a range of metals, including carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, and gain experience using advanced equipment safely and effectively. By the end of your training, you’ll be ready to take on projects in industries ranging from industrial manufacturing to custom metal fabrication.
Why Welding and Fabrication Are Strong Career Choices
One of the greatest advantages of welding and fabrication is long-term job security. Skilled welders are needed across the country, and companies are actively seeking workers who can perform precise, safe, and efficient work. When you enter this field, you are building a career based on skills that remain in constant demand.
This career path also rewards dedication and personal growth. Entry-level positions offer hands-on training and pay while leading into more advanced opportunities. As your experience and certifications grow, so does your earning potential and the complexity of the projects you can handle. Many Swanton Welding employees advance into supervisory positions or specialize in fabrication, painting, and other skilled areas, broadening their career paths.
Roles That Help You Build and Advance Your Skills
Swanton Welding offers residents of Temperance, Michigan multiple career paths that provide strong opportunities for advancement, including:
- Welder: Perform structural, custom, and industrial welding projects using MIG, TIG, and Stick techniques. Learn how to create precise welds while working safely with a variety of materials.
- Fabricator: Construct and assemble steel and metal parts, read and interpret blueprints, and ensure every project is completed to exact standards. This role builds both technical expertise and critical thinking skills.
- Paint Sprayer: Apply protective coatings to metal surfaces and prepare materials for finishing. This position focuses on accuracy and attention to detail to maintain quality and safety expectations.
Each role is designed to build responsibility, discipline, and teamwork. You will also gain hands-on experience in safety procedures, material handling, and inspection processes, helping you grow into a capable and well-rounded trades professional.
Start Earning While You Gain Experience
Unlike a traditional classroom setting, welding allows you to start your career without accumulating debt. At Swanton Welding, full-time roles let you earn a competitive wage while you learn the trade. This gives you the chance to develop financial stability while building real, hands-on skills.
Our training programs focus on developing both technical expertise and industry understanding. You will gain real-world experience working on active projects with modern machinery, positioning you to advance into higher-paying roles as your skills grow.
Mentorship That Builds Your Career Momentum
At Swanton Welding, mentorship is a core part of career development. You will work alongside skilled professionals who guide you through each stage of learning. Mentors offer instruction in welding techniques, safety procedures, quality expectations, and practical problem-solving.
Training under experienced professionals helps you grow more quickly. You will gain valuable feedback that improves your skills, increases efficiency, and reinforces the standards required for quality work. Mentorship also supports long-term development by helping you discover career directions that match your strengths and interests.
Safe Work Practices and Professional Development
Safety is essential in welding and fabrication work, requiring strict attention to established procedures. Swanton Welding prioritizes a safe work environment by supplying protective equipment, offering machinery operation training, and providing ongoing guidance. You will learn how to work safely and efficiently while focusing on building your technical skills.
Beyond safety, professional development is a key focus. Swanton Welding offers certification opportunities and training programs designed to enhance your skills and increase your marketability. These certifications can lead to specialized positions, higher earning potential, and long-term career advancement.
A Career Path Without Limits
At Swanton Welding, career advancement is encouraged and supported throughout your journey. Entry-level team members have the opportunity to move into positions such as lead welder, project manager, or trainer depending on their skills, work ethic, and performance. No role is limiting, and each position offers room to grow.
With advanced training, you can take on more challenging projects and supervisory roles. You’ll continue building your expertise, learning new methods, and earning certifications that increase your professional value. Hands-on experience combined with mentorship and development programs ensures a dynamic and rewarding career path.
A Creative Path You Can Be Proud Of
Welding and fabrication let you use your hands in a creative way, producing tangible results on a daily basis. Whether it’s crafting custom metal work or putting together industrial builds, every project challenges both your ability and creativity.
Unlike many careers where the final outcome is distant or unseen, welding provides immediate results and satisfaction. You can look at the finished structures and products you’ve contributed to and feel proud of your workmanship. This field uniquely combines craftsmanship, precision, and creativity.
Join Our Team Near Temperance, Michigan
If you are ready to take control of your future, Swanton Welding near Temperance, Michigan is ready to help you launch your career. We provide comprehensive training, experienced mentorship, access to advanced equipment, and opportunities to grow within the company.
Whether you’re a high school graduate hoping to skip student loan debt, a professional seeking a new career path, or a hands-on learner drawn to a creative trade, Swanton Welding gives you the tools and guidance to build a successful future.
Check out our open positions near Temperance, Michigan today and take the first step toward a fulfilling, high-demand career. This is where your future in welding and fabrication starts.
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125 Ton Steam Car
We built a 125 Ton Steam Car. We fabricated it, blasted and painted it, did the assembly, electrical work, and shop tested it.
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1270 Dredge
Swanton Welding Company began working on this Dredge project in February of 2022 with a wrap-up in October of 2022. This dredge is a medium-sized dredge that offers excellent rates for dredging depths up to fifty feet. This type of dredge is typically used for ports, harbors, rivers, and inland waterway dredging projects, as well […]
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Vertical Clarifiers with Thickeners
These were vertical clarifier tanks used to separate certain materials from water.
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Glass Furnace Rebuild – Support Steel
A client proposed and drew the initial design of this support steel project. It will encase and support a glass melting furnace for the engineered reinforcements industry. Swanton Welding supplied materials such as tie rods, platform steel, stairs, and ladders for the 20 ft tool glass melting furnace. Fabrication, blasting, and painting were customized to […]
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Double Drop Trailer
Swanton Welding Company was contracted to construct a double drop trailer for a client in Ottawa, OH. The project took under two months after a mid-July 2024 start, with completion in early September 2024. A double drop trailer, also known as a lowboy trailer, transports oversized loads considered too large for a standard trailer on […]
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Clarifier Tank Project
At Swanton Welding, we have the expertise and resources to meet all your large scale project requirements at our state-of-the-art facility. As your trusted partner in welding and fabrication projects, we are committed to providing exceptional craftsmanship, reliable service, and timely project completion. An example of our capabilities is the recent construction of a sizable […]
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Tire Separator and Hopper
The project involved making a hopper & separator for a tire recycling plant. The hopper was designed to dump truckloads of used tires. It has a motor and sliding floor system that was sloped to feed the tires to the separator, which would separate the tires based on size and feed them to additional equipment […]
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Discharge Hopper, Clarifier, Clarifier Structure, Catwalk & Stairs, Auger
We custom built a large Discharge Hopper, a Clarifier used to remove slurry, the Clarifier Structure, accessible Catwalk & Stairs, and a custom Auger for the Clarifier. The most interesting thing about this project was its overall size and the custom auger we built.
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Fulton County Hospital Office Addition
Swanton Welding was tasked with fabricating the steel framework for the new Fulton County Hospital addition in Wauseon, Ohio. We appreciated the opportunity to support Rupp/Rosebrock, Inc. and their construction crews as they constructed a four-story medical building that will attach to Fulton County Hospital. The team at Swanton Welding used our beam line to […]
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Steel Thrustframe Fabrication
A customer from the gas exploration industry approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate an A36 and A-514 steel thrustframe weldment. The 225,000 lbs weldment was fabricated using a variety of processes, including CNC milling, MIG welding, drilling, laser cutting, bending, tapping and forming. The 54′ long and 8′ wide thrustframe was skillfully fabricated using […]
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4100 Grillage Fabrication
Barge Stabilizer Swanton Welding took on a project with a simple goal: support a 1500 tons crane with two barges. The heavy duty steel frame binding the two barges together, and the crane would be used to drive in bridge pilings.
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Support Structure
Swanton Welding is fully equipped to meet all your large-scale structural steel project requirements in-house at our cutting-edge USA facility. We take pride in being a dedicated partner in the success of every fabrication project we complete. Recently, we collaborated with a client based in South Carolina to construct a support structure. Given its critical […]
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Accumulator Tower for Metal Coating Process
Structural Steel Tower This project consisted of constructing two similar towers. The entry side is pictured and the exit side can be seen in the distance. This new customer to Swanton Welding requested the project to be finish painted before it was delivered. These structural steel towers were assembled in the field and required very […]
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Bridge and Boardwalk
Swanton Welding was contracted to build a bridge and boardwalk for a client in Westfield, IN. Our estimation team and project manager worked with the client to make sure we provided an accurate and complete quote and timeline. This project took place from late May through late September of 2024. This bridge and boardwalk, weighing […]
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Mixing Tank Fabrication
A customer from the water treatment industry approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate a mixing tank assembly. The 50,000 lbs. tank assembly was made up of many different parts and systems including rapid mix, reactor and clarifier tanks, a 16′-8″ long platform, and a 15′ high draft tube. To fabricate these components and many […]
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CVG Airport Canopy
Fabrication of two large canopies out of steel tubing to be installed at an airport. The canopies were fully assembled in shop prior to shipping. Both canopies were hot dip galvanized to withstand the corrosive installation environment.
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Stainless Steel Platform
Custom fabricated stainless structural steel platform with carbon steel columns and handrails.
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Bottom Casing for Glass Furnace
This custom fabrication project was for approximately 30 Bottom Casings for a Glass Furnace. Each section had to have pads custom machined to ensure it was within 1 mm of flatness. After the individual casings were completed, we had to shop assemble the entire length of them and use a transit to ensure their critical […]
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Steel Stack Fabrication
Swanton Welding & Machining was approached by a client from the clean air industry to fabricate 950,000 lbs. of steel stacks. Eight large stacks were fabricated using a variety of processes including rolling, bending, forming and MIG welding. The stacks were fabricated using a combination of material such as, A36 steel and 304 and 409 […]
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Purification System Filter
Waste Water Separator This project’s client needed a water tight clarifier tank fabricated. We had to build, weld, leak test, shop assembly, blast, caulk, and paint the tank. In the end, we delivered a completed clarifier tank assembly. Completion Date March 7, 2017 Materials All materials were carbon steel Fabrication Methods This project utilized […]
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Ship Loader Lifting Truss
Swanton Welding Company recently wrapped up fabrication of a Ship Loader Lifting Truss, a large two-piece assembly designed for a Bruks Siwertell loading system. The finished components will be shipped to Enviva in Wilmington, North Carolina, demonstrating our ability to move oversized fabrications across long distances without issue. The project ran from August 11 to […]
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Replacement Boom
It is basically the structural arm for a heavy duty conveyor ship loader.
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Catalytic Converter
Fabricated stainless steel Catalytic Converter w/ Pipe Bundle. A customer approached us about doing this job out of stainless steel with the stainless pipe bundle being made out of a special seamless tubing. The timeline was critical as the customer had a two day plant outage scheduled and they needed this unit installed during that […]
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Inclined Plate Clarifier
Swanton Welding Company recently completed fabrication of an Inclined Plate Clarifier with an integrated Thickening Tank, a large-scale build designed for industrial wastewater treatment. We delivered the final assembly to Blythewood, South Carolina, where it will be used to remove metals and paint solids from wastewater streams. This project kicked off on December 3rd and […]
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Acid Furnace Fabrication
Swanton Welding & Machining was approached by a chemical industry customer to fabricate a 125,000 lbs. acid furnace. We first drafted complete shop fabrication drawings for the furnace using AutoCAD software. We then used a variety of fabrication methods to complete the A516 grade 70 and A-36 grade steel furnace, including: drilling, rolling, laser cutting, […]
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Stainless Steel Hopper
We custom fabricated this stainless steel hopper and finished it off with a polished interior for food grade application.
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Ladle Maintenance Carts
Customer needed a way to conveniently transport large ladles to areas where they will be used.
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Lamella Style Inclined Plate Clarifier
Swanton Welding was contracted to fabricate a Lamella Style Inclined Plate Clarifier that will ship to Mt. Holly, NC, when completed. This fabrication will serve as a wastewater clarifier for the facility in North Carolina. Swanton began this project in June of 2024, and it is currently ongoing. When completed, we expect the fully assembled […]
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CE Boiler Stack Replacement
Swanton Welding was responsible to create a drawing based printed CAD drawings to design and fabricate a replacement stack out of A588 material for the refinery
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Truck Dump Project
Swanton Welding fabricated two truck dump platforms. These are used in various industries where semi or other large trucks are driven onto a platform for unloading. After securing the truck, the platform is raised high into the air, and the load on the truck is transferred via gravity into a bin or hopper. Our client builds […]
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Industrial Conveyor Fabrication
An agricultural industry client approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate twelve, 5,000 lbs conveyor components. Utilizing AutoCAD 2009, we first drafted complete shop fabrication drawings of the component. We then fabricated the 20′ long, 3’6″ high and 8′ wide conveyor section using a CNC beam line, saws, and drills. After fabrication, during which we […]