Welder
Location
Lafayette, LA
Posted on October 1, 2026
Location
Lafayette, LA
Posted on October 1, 2026
As a Sheet Metal Welder at Gallo Mechanical, you will be responsible for welding, fabricating, and assembling sheet metal products using various welding techniques. The role requires interpreting blueprints and ensuring high-quality standards and safety protocols are followed.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Louisiana currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$36/hr across 30 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Lafayette, LA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 95 other active welding openings from 57 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Lafayette, or widen the search to Louisiana.
The most active employers in Louisiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are PALA Interstate (7), Worley (6), and GrayWolf (5). 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 and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
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.