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Overview

Join our dynamic team as an Auto Body Technician and become a vital part of restoring vehicles to their original condition with precision and craftsmanship. In this role, you will utilize your expertise in automotive structural repair, auto body repair, and cosmetic refinishing to deliver outstanding results.

Responsibilities

  • Perform automotive structural repairs using MIG welding, soldering, and welding repair techniques.
  • Conduct auto body repairs including dent removal, sheet metal work, and collision damage assessment.
  • Utilize hand tools, power tools, sanding tools, and automotive welding equipment to shape, repair, and refine vehicle surfaces.
  • Apply automotive cosmetic repairs such as auto body refinishing and detailing.
  • Install automotive parts accurately, ensuring proper alignment and fitment.
  • Execute fabrication repair techniques for custom modifications or repairs.
  • Assist with vehicle maintenance tasks and support auto restoration projects.
  • Maintain a clean and organized workspace while adhering to safety protocols.
  • Provide excellent customer service by communicating repair progress clearly.

Requirements

  • Proven experience working as an automotive body technician or in a similar role.
  • Strong background in auto body repair, automotive structural repair, dent removal, and sheet metal work.
  • Skilled in MIG welding, soldering, and welding repair techniques.
  • Familiarity with automotive parts installation.
  • Mechanical knowledge of vehicle systems for minor maintenance or troubleshooting.
  • Experience using hand tools, power tools, sanding equipment, and automotive welding machinery.
  • Knowledge of auto estimating processes is a plus but not required.
  • Ability to lift heavy components safely while maintaining attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for advancement
  • PTO

Additional Info

  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

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How this job compares in Tavares, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 123 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% 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.

The local market in Tavares, FL

Tavares, FL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 259 other active welding openings from 148 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (16), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (14), and Honeywell Technologies (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $32/hr, Cape Canaveral at $29/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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.

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