Mig Welder
Location
Birmingham, AL
Wage
$20/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Required Skills & Certifications
MIG Welding
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Posted on September 10, 2026
Job Description
Assembling wire carriers
Responsibilities: Production welding Reading blueprints and/or drawings to assemble wire carriers
Working hours: 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Skills: see required
Education: No Degree Required
Experience: 1-4 years
Qualifications: Must training or mig welding experience Must pass an onsite welding test Must be able to work overtime as needed
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key responsibilities
Production weldingReading blueprints and/or drawings to assemble wire carriers
experience
1-4 years
skills
see required
qualifications
Must training or mig welding experienceMust pass an onsite welding testMust be able to work overtime as needed
education
No Degree Required
Benefits
401k
Dental
Vision
How this job compares in Birmingham, AL
Pay in context
At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 29% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama, where the middle half runs $21–$34/hr across 63 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 22% 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 Birmingham, AL
We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Birmingham, AL right now, from 11 different employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 138 other active welding openings from 91 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Birmingham, or widen the search to Alabama.
The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (16), Austal USA (7), and Staffmark (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. Birmingham is among them.
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.