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Job Description

Overview

The Welder position involves performing MIG welding processes on various structural steel components in a fast-paced production environment. The ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of welding techniques and safety protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in MIG welding processes on structural steel components.
  • Understand and follow safety rules and precautions in a manufacturing environment.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed, and gas flow based on bead conditions.
  • Read tape measures and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide on adjustments or manipulations needed for welding.
  • Determine necessary repairs for pin holes and burn through.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures according to job standards.
  • Operate overhead cranes and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified bead shape, size, and penetration quality.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Implement continuous improvement practices in the work area.

Requirements

  • Thorough knowledge of welding techniques.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is Monday to Thursday, from 6:00 am to 4:30 pm.
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How this job compares in Elizabethton, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $18/hr, this posting comes in about 24% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $21–$29/hr across 52 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% 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 Elizabethton, TN

Elizabethton, TN is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 83 other active welding openings from 63 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 3 other openings live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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

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.

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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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.