Bracket Welder - 3rd Shift
Location
Forest City, NC
Wage
$22 – $25.47/hr
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 25, 2026
Location
Forest City, NC
Wage
$22 – $25.47/hr
Posted on August 25, 2026
We are looking for a talented Bracket Welder to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Forest City, NC. This role involves performing skilled activities that support manufacturing business needs while ensuring safety and quality.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina, whose middle half runs $21–$31/hr across 67 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Forest City, NC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 129 other active welding openings from 90 employers. Browse welding jobs across North Carolina.
The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Environmental Air Systems (5), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (4), and Aerotek (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
This posting calls for TIG. 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Bracket Welder - 3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.