Tig Welder
Location
Footville, WI
Wage
$51,000 – $65,000/yr
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 1, 2026
Location
Footville, WI
Wage
$51,000 – $65,000/yr
Posted on September 1, 2026
Staff On Site is seeking an experienced Tig Welder for a local industrial client. In this role, you will interpret blueprints, set up TIG welding equipment, and weld stainless steel and other metals to exact specifications.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for TIG welder jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $28–$28/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 31% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Footville, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 146 other active welding openings from 95 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.
Staff on Site currently has 8 other openings live in Wisconsin, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are JARP Industries Inc (9), Staff on Site (8), and Aerotek (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Oshkosh at $30/hr, Schofield at $26/hr, and Waukesha at $26/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for TIG. 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 TIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Tig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.