Welder MIG - 1st & 2nd Shift
Location
minneapolis, MN
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 12, 2026
Location
minneapolis, MN
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 12, 2026
This position is for an experienced MIG welder focusing on steel welding, with responsibilities including fabricating steel furniture from drawings. The job offers both day and second shift options and includes full-time permanent employment.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Minnesota currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$32/hr across 63 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
minneapolis, MN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Minnesota as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 58 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in minneapolis, or widen the search to Minnesota.
Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN currently has 5 other openings live in Minnesota, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Minnesota at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Lake Air Products (7), Welding Shop in Minneapolis, MN (5), and Atlas Copco Group (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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. Welder MIG - 1st & 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.