MIG WELDERS
Location
Leesburg, FL
Wage
$21/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 5, 2026
Location
Leesburg, FL
Wage
$21/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on October 5, 2026
Are you a reliable, adaptable welder looking to get your foot in the door with a top company? Spherion is hiring a full-time MIG Welder in Leesburg, FL to join a premier steel and equipment manufacturer. If you take pride in your work, value a positive culture, and want a role where you can grow your skills, this MIG Welder opportunity in Leesburg, FL offers competitive pay, great hours, and a clear path forward.
As a MIG Welder, you will assemble, fabricate, and repair metal components while operating equipment safely and efficiently.
Schedule: Monday to Friday Salary ranges from $21/hour and up, based on qualifications.
Why You'll Love Working Here! - Build your career with a respected steel and equipment manufacturer. - Enjoy early finishes on Fridays so you can enjoy longer weekends. - Join a supportive team environment that values reliable, and adaptable employees. - Competitive Pay: Starting rate at $21 per hour, with room for higher pay depending on experience.
Responsibilities: - Applying manual, automatic, and semi-automatic welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, and repair metal components. - Reviewing blueprints, schematics, work orders, layouts, and sketches to guide welding tasks. - Laying out and marking weld points on sub-assemblies or individual components. - Positioning pieces into jigs, holding fixtures, guides, and steps using hand tools and measuring instruments. - Cutting metal to appropriate shapes and smoothing molten metal to remove creases. - Operating heavy welding machinery emitting high heat to melt and shape metal parts. - Inspecting finished welds to ensure conformance to quality standards and specifications. - Following standard safety practices, maintaining accurate shop records, and participating in safety initiatives or committees. - Performing other shop and fabrication duties as assigned.
Working hours: 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Skills: - Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical drawings. - Hands-on proficiency using various power and hand tools.
Education: High School
Experience: 1-4 years
Qualifications: - Minimum 1-4 year of hands-on welding experience. - Solid mathematical skills for layout, measuring, and fitting tasks. - Reliable, dependable attendance with a desire to learn and adapt to team needs.
How to Apply Ready to step into your next role as a MIG Welder in Leesburg, FL? Apply online today to connect with your local Spherion team!
Spherion has helped thousands of people just like you find work happiness! Our experienced staff will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temp-to-perm or direct hire opportunities, no one works harder for you than Spherion.
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At Spherion, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact Callcenter@spherion.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Spherion offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
key responsibilities
experience
1-4 years
skills
qualifications
education
High School
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, where the middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 123 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 14% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Leesburg, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 265 other active welding openings from 149 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.
Spherion currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (17), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (13), and BAE Systems (11). 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.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. MIG WELDERS figures were last recalculated when this page was built.