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Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products in North America, seeking a motivated and experienced production welder for their night shift team. The role involves engaging in MIG welding processes on various structural steel components while ensuring quality and safety in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in full scope of MIG weld processes on structural steel.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed/travel, and gas flow.
  • Read tape measures and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide on adjustments or gun manipulations as needed.
  • Make repairs for pin holes and burn through caused by auto welder.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures.
  • Operate overhead crane and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified bead shape, size, and penetration.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Maintain continuous improvement practices in work area.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent (GED).
  • Minimum of one year of experience welding in a production environment or valid welding certification.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain CWB and AWS welding certification.
  • Experience with forklift and/or overhead crane operation is a plus.
  • Comfort and familiarity with power hand tools.
  • Willingness to train, certify, and operate forklift and overhead crane.
  • Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.
  • General mathematical knowledge and proficiency with basic measuring instruments.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Night Shift: 4:30 pm - 3:00 am.
  • Weekly Pay.
  • Gainsharing Bonus every 3 months.
  • Benefits starting on day 1.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Lexington, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 10% 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 31% 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 Lexington, TN

Lexington, TN is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 92 other active welding openings from 66 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 2 other openings live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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