Job Description

Now hiring for a MIG Welder – Direct Hire

Location: Jonesboro, AR

Schedule:1st or 2nd shift

Weld Like a Rock Star.  MIG Welders Needed

Looking for MIG Welder jobs in Jonesboro 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.

Job Duties

  • Weld metal parts together using electric or gas welding equipment.
  • Fill cavities and correct malformations in parts; hammer out bulges and bends in metal parts.
  • Use a grinder to smooth burrs and rough edges.
  • Examine parts for defects and confirm they meet quality requirements.
  • Arrange work in a safe and efficient manner.
  • Lift parts and dismantle metal assemblies as needed.
  • Cut scrap metal using a plasma torch.
  • Follow all safety rules, policies, and procedures.
  • Keep the work area clean and organized.
  • Perform other assigned duties.

Requirements

  • At least one year of welding experience required; MIG welding experience is needed for this role.
  • Knowledge of welding techniques, welding gases, and cutting tips.
  • Working knowledge of sheet metal, tooling, and tool maintenance.
  • Strong measuring and math skills, including fractions and decimals.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • Ability to read a tape measure to 1/16 of an inch.
  • Ability to distinguish among materials such as aluminum, steel, stainless steel, copper, and brass.
  • Good hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
  • Knowledge of safe techniques for lifting heavy items.
  • A high school diploma or equivalent, welding certification, and manufacturing experience are preferred.

Employee Benefits – Offered by Our Client

  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible spending account and health savings account
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee discount

“The supervisors are such great people — very friendly and attentive” -Jesus, Staffmark Associate

Bring your hustle, bring your fire. This job won’t wait.

What You Will Do

As a MIG 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 MIG Welder joins and fabricates metal components using MIG welding processes to produce strong, accurate, and reliable finished products. This role combines technical welding knowledge, mechanical aptitude, and craftsmanship to support manufacturing and fabrication operations.

Successful MIG Welder professionals understand welding techniques, blueprint interpretation, material preparation, and weld quality while maintaining safe work practices and consistent production standards. Attention to detail is essential for producing durable, high-quality weldments.

This profession is ideal for individuals who enjoy hands-on fabrication work, technical skill development, and producing quality metal products.

Benefits

401k
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Jonesboro, AR

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Arkansas currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $21–$32/hr across 37 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Jonesboro, AR

Jonesboro, AR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 60 other active welding openings from 44 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.

Staffmark currently has 1 other opening live in Arkansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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.

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.

Similar openings near Jonesboro, AR

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.