Millwright Welder/fabricator/mechanic
Location
La Vergne, TN
Wage
$25 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 26, 2026
Location
La Vergne, TN
Wage
$25 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 26, 2026
This short-term contract role is for Millwrights and Welders in La Vergne, TN, offering $25-30/hr. The position involves on-site work at a manufacturing facility in Clarksville, TN, focusing on the installation, maintenance, and mechanical setup of plant equipment.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, whose middle half runs $21–$32/hr across 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in La Vergne, 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Millwright Welder/fabricator/mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.