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Kelly Services

Mig Welder

Location

Oshkosh, WI

Wage

$26.13 – $32.91/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

SteelStainless Steel
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Posted on October 12, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Kelly, in partnership with a growing manufacturing company, is looking for several Welders in Oshkosh, WI. This is a direct hire role, meaning you will be hired permanently with our client and offered their competitive benefit, vacation, and compensation package.

Responsibilities

  • Set up, tack, and weld ferrous and nonferrous materials in accordance with applicable welding procedures, codes, and quality standards.
  • Interpret drawings and welding symbols, prepare and fit parts, and work with team members to assemble large components.
  • Inspect welds, complete testing and rework, and repair or rebuild parts as required.
  • Maintain weld appearance and quality appropriate to each application.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent, plus technical welding training.
  • GMAW certification or 3–5 years of equivalent welding experience.
  • Ability to interpret complex drawings and welding symbols and use shop mathematics and measuring tools.
  • Ability to pass required tests under applicable standards, which may include AWS, ISO, MIL-STD, international, or ASNT requirements.
  • Experience welding large, heavy industrial equipment.
  • Experience welding with stainless steel filler metal and related equipment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • 2nd shift openings, training on 1st shift.
  • Pay: $26.13 per hour, once training and certification is complete, pay jumps to $31.76 - $32.91 per hour plus a $.70 shift differential.
  • Looking for candidates who have the ability to certify in structural weld – 400 level.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Oshkosh, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin — toward the top of a $23–$30/hr middle band drawn from 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% 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 Oshkosh, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Oshkosh, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 165 other active welding openings from 101 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (16), Staff on Site (9), and Gpac (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Wisconsin, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marinette at $32/hr, Waukesha at $30/hr, and Milwaukee at $25/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.

See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Mig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.