Job Description

Overview

Lennox is a company with a 130-year legacy in HVAC and refrigeration, providing climate-control solutions to residential and commercial customers. The Welder I position involves fabricating and assembling metal structures under direct supervision, contributing to a culture of teamwork and innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Spot welds together metal components.
  • Fabricates and assembles metal structures and equipment using welders, cutters, shapers, and measuring tools.
  • Produces metal products according to specifications.
  • Reads and interprets diagrams, sketches, and blueprints to determine operations, required materials, and timeframes for projects.
  • Sets up, operates, and maintains welding equipment.

Requirements

  • Requires a high school diploma or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Basic ability to read engineering drawings and specifications to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
  • Requires precision control and dexterity.
  • Able to move objects weighing up to 75 pounds.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is an hourly non-exempt role.
  • Employees in this role are eligible to earn overtime when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Stone Mountain, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 31% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia, where the middle half runs $22–$39/hr across 155 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Stone Mountain, GA

Stone Mountain, GA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 386 other active welding openings from 252 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Stone Mountain, or widen the search to Georgia.

Lennox currently has 4 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7), Yancey Bros. Co. (6), and Classic Collision (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marietta at $39/hr, Forest Park at $39/hr, and Atlanta at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Stone Mountain, GA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.