Fabricator

Total Security Solutions; West Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Total Security Solutions in West Sacramento is seeking fabricators to build ballistic barrier components for secure facilities. You’ll work across the shop, welding, cutting, and assembling to blueprint specs, with cross-training across multiple stations and tools.

The role emphasizes hands-on learning, teamwork, and precision. You’ll handle varied tasks daily, enjoy real growth, and contribute to protective infrastructure for banks, schools, and government buildings.

Qualifications

• Hands-on metal fabrication, welding, or shop machinery experience; willingness to learn.
• Willing to cross-train across welding, water jet, plasma cutting.
• Able to read a tape measure and blueprints; handle fractions and decimals.
• Able to lift 50+ lbs; comfortable in a loud, dusty shop.

Responsibilities

• Fabricating and welding steel components — frames, brackets, supports, reinforcements, and subassemblies — to design specs.
• Running the water jet, plasma cutter, and cutting torch for precision cuts and clean fit-ups.
• Operating saws, grinders, drill presses, chop saws, band saws, impact drivers, and the rest of the shop's metalworking tools.
• Measuring, marking, and cutting steel accurately with calipers, tape measures, squares, and protractors.
• Reading blueprints and project drawings, then making mitered, beveled, and compound-angle cuts with confidence.

Skills

Metal fabrication

Welding

Shop machinery

Blueprint reading

Reading blueprints

Tools

Water jet

Plasma cutter

Cutting torch

Saws

Grinders

Drill presses

Chop saw

Band saw

Impact drivers

Calipers

Job description

At Total Security Solutions, our Fabricators build the steel components that go into bullet-resistant barriers protecting real people in banks, schools, courthouses, and government buildings across the country. This is a multifaceted role — one day you're welding, the next you're running the water jet, cutting on the plasma table, or dialing in a compound miter. The steel you shape stands between danger and the people on the other side of the glass.

What you'll do

You'll work across our West Sacramento steel shop, doing a little bit of everything to fabricate custom ballistic barrier components. Day to day, that means:

• Fabricating and welding steel components — frames, brackets, supports, reinforcements, and subassemblies — to design specs
• Running the water jet, plasma cutter, and cutting torch for precision cuts and clean fit-ups
• Operating saws, grinders, drill presses, chop saws, band saws, impact drivers, and the rest of the shop's metalworking tools
• Measuring, marking, and cutting steel accurately with calipers, tape measures, squares, and protractors
• Reading blueprints and project drawings, then making mitered, beveled, and compound-angle cuts with confidence
• Moving between stations as the floor needs you — this is a team shop, and the best days are the ones where everyone pitches in

If you want to learn multiple stations instead of being boxed into one, this is the job for you. Our product is unlike anything you've worked with before — come willing to work hard and stay curious, and we'll teach you everything you need to know to master it.

You’ll fit right in if you…

• Have hands-on experience with metal fabrication, welding, or shop machinery — or a real hunger to learn it
• Like variety and want to cross-train across welding, water jet, plasma cutting, and more
• Can read a tape measure, work from blueprints, and handle fractions and decimals in your head
• Are comfortable with power tools and precision instruments, and take pride in a clean, accurate cut
• Can lift 50+ lbs and don't mind a loud, dusty, temperature-changing shop
• Bring perfectionism and hustle — you sweat the details and you move with urgency
• Like to learn, like to help, and like being part of a crew that has each other's backs

CNC machining/programming or MasterCAM experience is a plus. Prior steel fabrication or shop experience is preferred, but the right attitude matters most.

Why TSS?

We're on a mission to be the industry leader in protecting people and property from physical attacks — and our people are how we get there. We live by our TRIBE values: be a Team Player, do the Right Thing, Improve 1% every day, Be Passionate, and deliver an Experience. We back those words up with real training, real growth, and work that genuinely matters.

Ready to build something that protects people?

Total Security Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer with leadership and a culture that supports diversity and inclusion.