Welder
Location
Malvern, AR
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Malvern, AR
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Systems, LLC, an affiliate of Chamberlain Group, is a U.S.-based manufacturer of loading dock equipment. The Associate II, Welder position involves welding and assembling various materials while ensuring safety and quality standards are met.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas, where the middle half runs $21–$32/hr across 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 31% 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.
Malvern, AR currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 45 other active welding openings from 39 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Malvern, or widen the search to Arkansas.
Systems, LLC. currently has 1 other opening live in Arkansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are XPO (2), Veterans Health Administration (2), and Greenbrier Companies (2). 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 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.