Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

The welder performs repairs and maintenance to equipment parts, vehicles, and roll-off containers, including painting repaired and/or new containers.

Responsibilities

  • Performs repairs and maintenance on front and rear load, and roll-off containers.
  • Cuts/welds repairs to vehicle floors, bodies, packing blades, and rails.
  • Welds steel and aluminum components using MIG gun and arc welding equipment.
  • Bends steel components using a break and shear.
  • Cuts steel using a plasma cutter or torch.
  • Fabricates steel components on trucks and containers.
  • Installs lids and wheels on containers.
  • Paints repaired and/or new containers.
  • Sweeps up the container shop welding debris, grease, and ensures the shop is kept clean and safe.
  • Follows all safety policies and procedures.
  • Completes required paperwork.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Additional Information

  • Inside facility, outside environment exposed to weather and vibrations from trucks and maintenance facility.
  • Occasional exposure to extreme weather conditions.
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Southaven, MS

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Mississippi currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$39/hr across 47 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Southaven, MS

Southaven, MS 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 Mississippi as a whole we're tracking 101 other active welding openings from 55 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Southaven, or widen the search to Mississippi.

The most active employers in Mississippi at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are HII (13), TIC - The Industrial Company (10), and Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Division of HII (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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.

Similar openings near Southaven, MS

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