Driveshaft Machinist and Fabricator

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Wage

$41,600 – $62,400/yr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG Welding
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Posted on August 20, 2026

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Driveshaft Machinist & Fabricator to join our team. In this role, you will manufacture, modify, repair, and balance custom driveshafts and drivetrain components for a wide range of applications, including high-performance automotive, industrial machinery, and heavy equipment.

If you enjoy working with your hands, precision machining, and taking custom metal fabrication projects from raw tubing to a finished, dynamically balanced product, this role is for you.

salary: $41,600 - $62,400 per year shift: First work hours: 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM education: High School

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Machining & Metalworking: Cut, bend, saw, measure, and prepare steel, aluminum, and chrome tubing to precise specifications.
  • Welding: Perform high-quality TIG and MIG welding on steel, aluminum, and custom alloys to assemble driveshafts, yokes, and related drivetrain components.
  • Precision Fitting & Prep: Inspect raw materials and components for runout and fitment; prep joints and surfaces for optimal weld strength and balance.
  • Equipment Operation: Safely operate metal-cutting saws, lathes, drills, presses, measuring tools (micrometers, dial indicators), and dynamic balancing equipment.
  • Modification & Repair: Shorten, lengthen, re-tube, or replace yokes and ends on existing driveshafts according to custom build orders.
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure all builds maintain strict tolerances, runout specifications, and structural integrity.

The essential functions of this role include:

• manual lifting up to 50lbs • standing for 8 hours at one time Skills

• Fabrication (1 year of experience is required) • metalwork • welding (1 year of experience is required) • band saw Qualifications

• Years of experience: 1 year • Experience level: Entry Level Randstad is a world leader in matching great people with great companies. Our experienced agents will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temporary-to-permanent or permanent opportunities, no one works harder for you than Randstad.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

Benefits

401k
Dental
Vision

How this job compares in Brooklyn, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $30/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $26–$35/hr across 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 21% 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 Brooklyn, NY

We're tracking 22 other active welding openings in Brooklyn, NY right now, from 13 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 158 other active welding openings from 109 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Brooklyn, or widen the search to New York.

Randstad USA currently has 5 other openings live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (15), Randstad USA (5), and Veterans Health Administration (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $54/hr, Brooklyn at $33/hr, and Rochester at $25/hr. Brooklyn is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG 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.

See all welder fabricator 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. Driveshaft Machinist and Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.