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Overview

The Traveling Code-Certified Welder role involves fully travel-based field assignments across the United States, focusing on executing high-quality welding projects for aerospace and advanced manufacturing organizations. Nordic Solutions is dedicated to matching elite welding professionals with high-stakes projects, ensuring support throughout the assignment.

Responsibilities

  • Execute MIG, TIG, Flux-Core, Stick, or Submerged Arc welds compliant with WPS.
  • Fit and weld components to meet code and customer specifications.
  • Interpret blueprints and symbols; coordinate with fabrication, quality, and engineering teams.
  • Select equipment, consumables, and filler metals aligned with WPS.
  • Perform visual inspections; verify weld integrity against code and client requirements.
  • Maintain precise documentation; uphold safety and quality standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of verifiable welding experience: MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), Flux-Core (FCAW), Stick (SMAW), Submerged Arc (SAW).
  • Current or previous certifications with the capacity to recertify.
  • Demonstrated ability to read blueprints and welding symbols.
  • Solid understanding of welding procedures (WPS), codes, and quality standards.
  • Experience with carbon steel, stainless steel, and alloys preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental

Additional Information

  • Fully travel-based field assignments across the United States.
  • Open-ended projects (commonly 6+ months).
  • Overtime available based on client demand.
  • Mileage reimbursement of $0.725/mile to the job site.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
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How this job compares in Addison, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 46% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 87% 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 Addison, TX

Addison, TX currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 519 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Addison, or widen the search to Texas.

NordicWorkflow ApS currently has 2 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), Zachry Group (20), and Austin Industries (20). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. Traveling Code-Certified Welder (GTAW/GMAW/FCAW/SMAW) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.