Welder
Location
Battlefield, MO
Wage
$23 – $24/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 26, 2026
Location
Battlefield, MO
Wage
$23 – $24/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 26, 2026
The Welder performs MIG welding on steel components, utilizing various hand and power tools for fabrication tasks. This role emphasizes the ability to read blueprints accurately and execute fitter duties to ensure high-quality assembly and finished products.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri, where the middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 34% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Battlefield, MO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 80 other active welding openings from 56 employers. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.
Aerotek currently has 4 other openings live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Leonardo DRS (4), Aerotek (4), and Bass Pro Shops (4). 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.
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.