Skilled - Welder/Fabricator
Location
Liberty, MO
Wage
$25 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 29, 2026
Location
Liberty, MO
Wage
$25 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 29, 2026
We are seeking skilled and motivated Welders to join a great manufacturing and fabrication team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for welding, fabricating, and assembling metal components according to blueprints, specifications, and quality standards.
At roughly $27/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $24/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Missouri — toward the top of a $22–$28/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Liberty, MO is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 56 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.
QPS Employment Group currently has 7 other openings live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (7), Welding Shop in Kansas City, MO (6), and Leonardo DRS (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Charles at $26/hr and Kansas City at $26/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.
See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Skilled - Welder/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.