Job Description

Overview

Adecco is seeking a skilled Welder to join a client's team in Fort Worth, TX. This temporary-to-hire position offers competitive pay and opportunities for long-term growth.

Responsibilities

  • Weld metal components using brazing, arc, gas, or gas-shielded arc welding equipment.
  • Assist Fitters in positioning, aligning, and assembling fabricated plates, structural shapes, and weldments.
  • Perform gas welding and tack-welding per layouts, diagrams, or work orders.
  • Weld overlapping edges of sheet metal components and assemble sheet metal structures such as control panels.
  • Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components into structural forms.
  • Select welding equipment and plan layouts and assemblies.
  • Set up welding equipment, adjust amperage/voltage, and ensure proper gas flow.
  • Align and secure parts using blocking, braces, clamps, and jigs.
  • Preheat workpieces as needed.
  • Select appropriate torch tips, filler rods, and flux based on specifications.
  • Manually guide electrodes or welding guns along weld lines to achieve precise results.
  • Perform flat, horizontal, vertical, or overhead welding.
  • Apply filler material as needed to complete welds.
  • Inspect welds for size, quality, and defects.
  • Grind, chip, or cut to remove excess weld or correct imperfections.
  • Repair broken or cracked metal components.
  • Clean and maintain work areas, tools, and equipment.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required.
  • 3-5 years of welding experience preferred; completion of an apprenticeship or welding certification a plus.
  • Proficient with manufacturing, assembly, and welding equipment.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, diagrams, and work orders.
  • Basic computer skills; Microsoft Office experience preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Schedule: 6:00am-2:30pm Monday-Friday
  • Type: Full-Time, Temp-to-Hire

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Fort Worth, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Fort Worth, TX, whose middle half runs $22–$30/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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.

The local market in Fort Worth, TX

We're tracking 21 other active welding openings in Fort Worth, TX right now, from 19 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 518 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Fort Worth, or widen the search to Texas.

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.

Similar openings near Fort Worth, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder 1st shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.