Job Description

Overview

The Welder position involves Mig welding using spray arc transfer processes to weld pipes, cyclones, and other applications. The role requires performing various welding tasks while ensuring quality and safety in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Inspect and measure machined work pieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Remove rough spots from work pieces using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
  • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers.
  • Weld components in flat and vertical welding positions.
  • Examine finished work pieces to verify conformance with specifications.
  • Operate and maintain robotic welding equipment.
  • Set up welding equipment and adjust settings as needed.
  • Monitor the welding process to ensure quality and accuracy.
  • Perform routine maintenance on welding equipment.
  • Follow instructions and/or direction given by supervisors to complete assigned work projects.
  • Demonstrate 100% commitment to safety and zero harm behaviors.

Requirements

  • Proven experience Mig Welding with Spray Arc Transfer or Short Arc transfer Welding.
  • Strong knowledge of welding techniques and equipment.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and welding diagrams.
  • Excellent attention to detail and quality control skills.
  • Ability to proactively troubleshoot problems.
  • Fabricating experience preferred.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
  • Work as a team within department and with other departments and Leads.
  • Ability to work scheduled hours and comply with company policies.

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift: 7am - 430pm, M-F.
  • Additional Overtime Available As Business Needs Increase.
  • Starting at $21.95 per hour or more.
  • Will be required to do a basic weld test during interview.

How this job compares in Belleview, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $21–$32/hr across 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 26% 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.

The local market in Belleview, TN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Belleview, TN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 67 other active welding openings from 47 employers. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), Mueller Water Products (4), and Staffmark (4). 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.

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