Tig Welder - Stainless Steel
Location
Random Lake, WI
Wage
$20 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 13, 2026
Location
Random Lake, WI
Wage
$20 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 13, 2026
Kiefer Industries, Inc. is a custom fabrication shop located in Random Lake, WI, seeking a Stainless Steel Tig Welder. The position offers growth opportunities and requires some experience in stainless steel TIG welding.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin, whose middle half runs $23–$30/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Random Lake, 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.
This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all stainless steel 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. Tig Welder - Stainless Steel figures were last recalculated when this page was built.