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Job Description

Overview

This National Guard position is for a Welder (Title 32) within the TN Army National Guard, responsible for performing various welding duties using different processes and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding duties using electric, acetylene, and/or inert gas shielded welding processes.
  • Pre-heat, braze, tack weld, flame cut, pressure weld, and heat treat metal items.
  • Use templates, jigs, blueprints, and other guides to repair, modify, or fabricate metal items.
  • Repair light or intricately made mechanical parts that require close tolerances.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
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How this job compares in Smyrna, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee — toward the top of a $21–$27/hr middle band drawn from 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% 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.

The local market in Smyrna, TN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Smyrna, 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 71 other active welding openings from 54 employers. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staffmark (4), Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (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.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. WELDER (TITLE 32) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.