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Job Description

Overview

Express Employment Professionals Clearwater is hiring 4 experienced MIG Welders for a special 2-3 month project in Clearwater, FL. The position offers steady hours on a clean indoor job site with a pay rate of $23 per hour.

Responsibilities

Requirements

  • Previous MIG welding experience required
  • Structural steel welding experience preferred
  • Ability to pass an onsite weld test
  • Ability to read and follow fabrication drawings is a plus
  • Dependable attendance and strong work ethic

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Shift: 2nd Shift, 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM
  • Duration: 2-3 Month Special Project
  • Location: Clearwater, FL
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Work Environment: Indoor Facility
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How this job compares in Clearwater, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $22/hr median for MIG welder jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $21–$22/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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 Clearwater, FL

Clearwater, FL currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 222 other active welding openings from 151 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Clearwater, or widen the search to Florida.

Welding Shop in Tampa, FL currently has 8 other openings live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (14), Aerotek (8), and Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tampa at $36/hr, Jacksonville at $30/hr, and Cocoa at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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.

See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Mig Welder- 2nd Shift 4pm-11pm figures were last recalculated when this page was built.