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Job Description

Overview

This National Guard position is for a Welder (Title 32) within the TN Army National Guard, focusing on various welding processes and metal fabrication.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding duties using electric, acetylene, and/or inert gas shielded welding processes.
  • Pre-heat, braze, head weld, tack weld, flame cut, pressure weld, and heat treat metal items.
  • Use templates, jigs, blueprints, and other guides to repair, modify, or fabricate metal items.
  • Repair light or intricately made mechanical parts that require close tolerances.
  • Braise dissimilar metals and flame cut metal to size for fabrication.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
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How this job compares in Smyrna, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $29/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 59% 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.

The local market in Smyrna, TN

Smyrna, TN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 67 other active welding openings from 48 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

Army National Guard Units currently has 1 other opening live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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.

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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 (TITLE 32) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.