Pipefitter/Welder
Location
Louisville, KY
Wage
$39.7 – $41.27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 22, 2026
Location
Louisville, KY
Wage
$39.7 – $41.27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 22, 2026
Michelin, a global leader in Tires with a presence in over 170 countries, is seeking a Plant Pipefitter/Welder for its facility in Louisville, Kentucky. The role involves maintaining plant piping systems and operating the refrigeration system, with personalized training provided for selected candidates.
At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 62% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky — toward the top of a $22–$28/hr middle band drawn from 35 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 94% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Louisville, KY currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 47 other active welding openings from 38 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Louisville, or widen the search to Kentucky.
The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Snelling (3), BAE Systems (3), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipefitter/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.