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Overview

Welder I at Quality Steel Corporation is responsible for ensuring safety and quality in welding operations. The role involves operating welding machines, performing quality control, and maintaining equipment and workstations.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Safety First, Safety Always and meet or exceed Quality expectations.
  • Inspect equipment to be utilized prior to shift start.
  • Set and/or operate weld machines to manufacturer’s specifications, meeting time budgets for finished product.
  • Select, install, and position required fittings in accordance with Standard Work Instructions.
  • Perform welds to meet all company and code requirements.
  • Perform Quality Control by visually inspecting welds for defects and reporting defects to Supervisor.
  • Maintain machines and cleanliness of workstation.

Requirements

  • Minimum of one year welding experience, preferred.
  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • Certified Welder License, preferred.
  • Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to work in various environmental conditions (heat, humidity, cold).
  • Knowledge of welding and metal properties, electrical equipment, and manual tools/gauges.
  • Ability to operate a MIG welder and set parameters as needed.
  • Ability to safely lift/move up to 60 lbs.
  • Ability to record data accurately and in a timely manner.
  • Ability to receive and follow verbal and written instructions.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with team members to accomplish departmental goals and improve operations.
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How this job compares in Cleveland, MS

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 48% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Mississippi, where the middle half runs $25–$39/hr across 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 4% 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 Cleveland, MS

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Cleveland, MS, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Mississippi as a whole we're tracking 103 other active welding openings from 56 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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.

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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 I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.