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Job Description

Overview

The primary responsibility of a welder is to efficiently operate various manual and automated equipment in the production of welded components.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize what work is to be performed.
  • Follow all safety guidelines while performing duties and operating equipment.
  • Ability to use welding torches and arcs welders in a manufacturing environment.
  • Weld various components while using clamps and other holding devices.
  • Inspect machining operations and finished product against specified tolerances.
  • Monitor all welding processes and ensure the absence of any shrinkage and distortion to materials.
  • Maintain welding specifications based on SOP’s, quality standards, and training.
  • Maintain accurate daily production records.
  • Utilize basic math and computer skills.
  • Ability to read a tape measure.
  • Use a range of hand and power tools.
  • Maintain daily housekeeping.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Brazing or welding experience, preferred.
  • Detail-oriented.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Blueprint reading skills.
  • Ability to understand and convert decimals and fractions.
  • Good communication skills.
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How this job compares in Lexington, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $20–$29/hr across 54 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 17% 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 Lexington, TN

Lexington, TN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 88 other active welding openings from 63 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Lexington, or widen the search to Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Cornerstone Building Brands (4), Staffmark (4), and Honey Creek Staffing (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Tennessee, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chattanooga at $24/hr and Greeneville at $21/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Lexington, TN

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