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Overview

The Welder position involves welding, fabricating, repairing, and maintaining equipment while ensuring adherence to safety regulations. The role requires a thorough understanding of welding processes and the ability to work in various environments.

Responsibilities

  • Welding, fabricating, repairing, and maintaining all equipment, both rented and owned.
  • Operating all authorized and required welding equipment.
  • Monitoring the welding, burning, and fitting process to prevent overheating or damage.
  • Preparing, assembling, and tack welding parts that need to be welded.
  • Following and upholding all required safety rules and regulations.
  • Recognizing and correcting safety hazards.
  • Performing general housekeeping duties related to equipment and cleaning of the work area.
  • Supporting other shop activities as required.
  • Checking finished work to ensure it meets desired tolerances.
  • Maintaining all tools and equipment assigned.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of welding experience.
  • Thorough understanding of machines and tools used for welding.
  • Ability to read and understand welding instructions from drawings, models, and blueprints.
  • Ability to mark-up construction drawings with as-built information.
  • Excellent ability to read and listen to assignments in various forms.
  • Basic understanding of mathematics related to welding assignments.
  • Ability to work in different environments (i.e. inside, outside, very hot, very cold).
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How this job compares in Northdale, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Florida — toward the top of a $22–$30/hr middle band drawn from 114 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 62% 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.

The local market in Northdale, FL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Northdale, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 231 other active welding openings from 152 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (15), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (9), and Aerotek (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tampa at $36/hr, Jacksonville at $31/hr, and Clearwater at $23/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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