Welder
Location
Newport, TN
Wage
$20 – $22/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 30, 2026
Location
Newport, TN
Wage
$20 – $22/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 30, 2026
Now hiring for a Welder
Location: Newport, TN
Pay Rate: $20.00 – $22.00 per hour
Shift: 3:30PM-2:00am
Welding Pros, Let’s Talk! MIG Welders Wanted
Looking for Welder jobs in Newport where your welding skills help build quality products? This opportunity lets you apply your craftsmanship to fabricate, join, and repair metal components while supporting safe, efficient manufacturing operations.
If your skills and experience are a good match for this role please apply today. This opportunity is based on a MIG Welder career path and is being offered by Staffmark to qualified candidates.
Education Requirements
Experience Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Physical Capabilities
Benefits
“Staffmark is full of very good helpful people” -Jaelo, Staffmark Associate
Sparks are flying. Grab this MIG welder job in Newport today.
What You Will Do
As a Welder you will prepare materials, set up welding equipment, perform MIG welding operations, inspect completed welds, read blueprints, verify measurements, and help fabricate metal components according to engineering specifications. You will maintain welding equipment, follow quality standards, and support safe, efficient manufacturing operations while producing consistent, high-quality work.
A Welder contributes to manufacturing operations by producing high-quality welded assemblies using MIG welding equipment and established fabrication procedures. This position requires welding expertise, mechanical aptitude, and commitment to quality.
The Welder supports production through careful material preparation, accurate welding techniques, and consistent inspection of completed work while maintaining safe operating practices. Precision and reliability are central to professional success.
This profession rewards individuals who enjoy technical craftsmanship and fabrication work.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $21–$27/hr across 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 26% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Newport, TN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 69 other active welding openings from 53 employers. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.
Staffmark currently has 3 other openings live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), Staffmark (3), and JOST International (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.