MIG Aluminum Welder / Custom Sign Fabricator
Location
Concord, NC
Wage
$45,760 – $58,240/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Concord, NC
Wage
$45,760 – $58,240/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location: Concord, NC (Greater Charlotte Area)
Job Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire / Permanent Placement
Shift: 1st Shift (In-House Fabrication Facility)
Position Overview Randstad has partnered with a premier custom signage and architectural metal manufacturer in Concord, NC to recruit a skilled Aluminum Welder & Custom Fabricator.
If you take pride in precision craftsmanship and want to build structural and aesthetic products that define commercial landscapes across the region, this direct-hire opportunity offers long-term stability, excellent benefits, and consistent overtime opportunities in a modern, fast-paced fabrication environment. Candidate Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits Our client offers a competitive salary structure dependent on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package:
How to Apply Take the next step in your welding career with a company that values craftsmanship and long-term talent retention. Apply directly through Randstad USA today to connect with our Permanent Placement team!
salary: $45,760 - $58,240 per year shift: First work hours: 6 AM - 2 PM education: High School
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
The essential functions of this role include:
• standing for 8 hours at one time Skills • Mig • aluminum • Fabrication • tools Qualifications • Years of experience: 3 years • Experience level: Experienced 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.
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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.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina, where the middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 108 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% 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.
Concord, NC 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 North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 164 other active welding openings from 85 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Concord, or widen the search to North Carolina.
The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are West Fraser (49), Carrier Global (5), and Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (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 North Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Charlotte at $36/hr and Seaboard at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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 MIG aluminum 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. MIG Aluminum Welder / Custom Sign Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.