Entry and Mid Level Welder
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Wage
$42,000 – $50,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 24, 2026
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Wage
$42,000 – $50,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 24, 2026
Calling all MIG welders! Have you recently graduated with your welding certificate or have years of experience? We are partnering with an industry-leading manufacturer to immediately fill 1st and 2nd shift MIG Welder positions offering competitive pay ranging from $20.00 to $24.00 per hour, determined by your weld test performance. This position is a direct-hire opportunity that offers consistent work, excellent pay, and an opportunity for overtime on Saturday to significantly boost your weekly earnings. -- Full Suite of Benefits: This role comes with a comprehensive benefits package including full medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus paid time off (PTO). -- Interview & Weld Test Process Interviews consist of a written test and a physical 1G MIG weld test. A bend test will be submitted for lab review, with official results returned within up to one week. Job offers will be extended based on combined test performance.
Required Interview Equipment: You must bring your own steel-toe boots/shoes, welding hood, welding gloves, and safety glasses to the interview. ZPMLSTCM
salary: $42,000 - $50,000 per year shift: First work hours: 5 AM - 1:30 PM education: No Degree Required
Responsibilities
Qualifications & Requirements
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The essential functions of this role include:
• working in a smoke free environment • wearing steel toe shoes • working in a non-temperature controlled environment • manual lifting up to 50lbs • working weekends Skills • MIG Welding (1 year of experience is preferred) • Welding (1 year of experience is required) • Blueprint Reading • 1G Position Welding • Quality Inspection Standards • Metal Fabrication Experience • Tape Measure Reading Qualifications • Years of experience: 1 year • Experience level: Entry Level Randstad is a world leader in matching great people with great companies. Our experienced agents will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temporary-to-permanent or permanent opportunities, no one works harder for you than Randstad.
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welding jobs in Fort Worth, TX, whose middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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.
We're tracking 26 other active welding openings in Fort Worth, TX right now, from 17 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,025 other active welding openings from 477 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Fort Worth, or widen the search to Texas.
Randstad USA currently has 6 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 (27), Austin Industries (26), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21). 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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Pasadena at $36/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Entry and Mid Level Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.