Production Manager - Production Manager, Metal Fabrication Shop
Location
Gardendale, AL
Wage
$64,336/yr
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Posted on September 15, 2026
Job Description
Overview
AL Gardendale prioritizes its team members by offering a great salary and benefits, along with support and opportunities for personal growth. The Production Manager in the Metal Fabrication Shop is responsible for ensuring that necessary materials for repairs are available to technicians and facilitating communication during meetings.
Responsibilities
- Support the General Manager by ensuring materials necessary for repairs are available.
- Participate in final repair plan meetings.
- Attend morning and afternoon huddles to note any issues.
Requirements
Benefits
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How this job compares in Gardendale, AL
Pay in context
At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama — toward the top of a $21–$34/hr middle band drawn from 61 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
The local market in Gardendale, AL
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Gardendale, AL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 135 other active welding openings from 90 employers. Browse welding jobs across Alabama.
The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (16), Austal USA (7), and Fives (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 Alabama, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Mobile at $40/hr and Birmingham at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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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. Production Manager - Production Manager, Metal Fabrication Shop figures were last recalculated when this page was built.