Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

The job involves various trade positions including welders, electricians, and painters. Candidates are required to have specific qualifications and skills relevant to each position.

Responsibilities

  • Perform safety and quality checks.
  • Maintain equipment.
  • Set up welding equipment.

Requirements

  • Welders: experience, high school diploma or GED, vocational training, resume required, mathematical skills, steady hand-eye coordination, physical strength and endurance, good communication, teamwork abilities.
  • Electricians: electrical experience, high school diploma, resume required.

Benefits

  • None mentioned.

Additional Information

  • None mentioned.
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Cookeville, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $14/hr, this posting comes in about 42% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $21–$31/hr across 58 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Cookeville, TN

Cookeville, TN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 92 other active welding openings from 65 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Oshkosh Corporation (4), Epiroc (3), and Aerotek (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Cookeville, TN

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