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Overview

The Welder Assistant will work with galvanized sheet metal, performing MIG welding on materials ranging from 20 gage to 12 gage. Candidates must demonstrate high-quality welding skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Operates welding machinery and equipment.
  • Reads job specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements.
  • Measures work piece dimensions to determine accuracy of machine operation.
  • Welds in a fast paced production environment; regularly required to weld on equipment in a team environment.
  • Maintains the work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follows prescribed safety regulations.
  • Operates any equipment needed to perform job and performs other related duties and assignments as required.
  • Must be able to work as part of a team.

Requirements

  • Strong MIG welding experience in a production or manufacturing environment.
  • Experience working with thin-gauge metal and maintaining high-quality weld standards.
  • Ability to read and follow welding specifications, blueprints, and work instructions.
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety and quality.
  • High School diploma or general education degree (GED); or two to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Must have a good command of the English language, both written and spoken.
  • Must be able to read and interpret drawings, follow routers, use simple math, and use basic hand held measuring tools.

Additional Information

  • Candidates will be required to successfully complete a weld test during the interview process.
  • Work schedule is Monday - Friday from 3pm to 11:30pm with a 30 minute unpaid lunch.
  • Work location is on the road.

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How this job compares in Forest Park, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia, where the middle half runs $24–$37/hr across 124 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% 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 Forest Park, GA

Forest Park, GA currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 217 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Forest Park, or widen the search to Georgia.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (12), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (11), and Gerber Collision & Glass (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Marietta at $39/hr, and Kennesaw at $32/hr. Forest Park is among them.

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