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MIG Welder

Location

Gainesville, TX

Wage

$17 – $29/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on September 15, 2026

Job Description

📍 Gainesville & Whitesboro, TXIf you're an experienced production MIG welder looking for a long-term opportunity with room to grow, we'd like to talk with you.We're hiring welders to fabricate industrial pipe assemblies, headers, manifolds, and related steel components in a manufacturing environment.What You'll Be Doing✔ MIG welding carbon and stainless steel components✔ Reading blueprints and weld drawings✔ Fabricating pipe assemblies and production parts✔ Inspecting your own work for quality✔ Working safely in a fast-paced manufacturing environmentWhat We're Looking For✅ Previous MIG welding experience✅ Ability to read blueprints and tape measures✅ Consistent, quality welds✅ Strong attention to detail✅ Dependable work…

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How this job compares in Gainesville, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $22/hr median for MIG welder jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $20–$25/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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.

The local market in Gainesville, TX

Gainesville, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,088 other active welding openings from 560 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Snelling currently has 9 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Austin, TX (26), Zachry Group (25), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Burleson at $40/hr, Pasadena at $40/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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.

See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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