Job Description

Overview

TAIT partners with artists and brands to create innovative live experiences, while Gallagher Staging and Productions specializes in production staging and custom fabrication. The Welder II position involves welding and fabricating components for staging and production projects using MIG and TIG techniques.

Responsibilities

  • MIG and TIG welding stainless steel and aluminum components in flat or vertical positions
  • Read blueprints and follow them accurately
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces to ensure conformance with specifications
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping of parts
  • Maintain production efficiency levels
  • Ensure timely and accurate performance of responsibilities
  • Proactively participate, offer and provide guidance and assistance to others in workflow process, procedures, projects and committees
  • Continuously maintain a clean and orderly work area
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Must be at least 18 years of age
  • 2+ years welding/fabrication experience
  • Ability to work with steel, aluminum, wood, foam and more
  • Work well in a team environment
  • Positive work attitude
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to lift up 70 lbs
  • Ability to stand long hours, use hands and wrist continuously in controlled movement
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Self-motivated with the initiative to learn and be trained on various types of equipment and processes
  • Excellent organization and time management skills
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule including, overtime, nights, weekends and some holidays as required

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Offer is contingent upon successful evaluation of fabrication skills; on site weld and fabrication test.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Nashville, TN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Tennessee currently run a median of $24/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $20–$29/hr across 51 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Nashville, TN

Nashville, TN currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 9 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 90 other active welding openings from 67 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Nashville, or widen the search to Tennessee.

TAIT currently has 1 other opening 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 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.

What you'll be running

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.

Similar openings near Nashville, TN

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