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Overview

As a Welder at XPO, you will perform various welding activities and ensure compliance with safety and production standards. XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, seeking employees who thrive on challenges and effective communication.

Responsibilities

  • Perform all welding activities and operate all welding equipment and tooling in a safe manner
  • Meet production requirements and standards
  • Verify welding results through inspections and weld tests, if necessary
  • Fabricate components by using equipment to clean, cut, burn and weld pieces
  • Set up components in jigs and fixtures
  • Maintain a 5-S environment
  • Work with and support other members of the company
  • Maintain punctual, regular, and reliable attendance
  • Demonstrate the XPO’s core values and comply with all company policies and procedures
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management

Requirements

  • Able to pass a welding test
  • Able to follow blueprints and plan of work procedures
  • 2 years of welding and fabrication experience
  • Good communication skills
  • Display a professional demeanor and communicate in a respectful and collaborative manner
  • Able to follow directions, be engaged and productive and remain adaptable to changing conditions and expectations

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Shift: Monday - Thursday, 6:00am - 4:30pm, occasional Fridays
  • Earn up to 15 days PTO over the course of your first year
  • 9 paid company holidays
  • Education assistance

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Searcy, AR

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas, where the middle half runs $21–$32/hr across 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Searcy, AR

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Searcy, AR, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 58 other active welding openings from 42 employers. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.

The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (3), Systems, LLC. (3), and The Greenbrier Companies (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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. Welder - Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.