MIG WELDER
Location
Memphis, TN
Wage
$20 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Memphis, TN
Wage
$20 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 27, 2026
Now hiring for a MIG WELDER
Location: Memphis, TN
Pay Rate: $20.00 – $38.00 per hour
Day Shift: 6:00 AM–4:30 PM + Night Shift: 5:00 PM – 3:30 AM
Weld Like a Rock Star. MIG Welders Needed
Looking for MIG WELDER jobs in Memphis where your welding skills help build quality products? This opportunity lets you apply your craftsmanship to fabricate, join, and repair metal components while supporting safe, efficient manufacturing operations.
If your skills and experience are a good match for this role please apply today. This opportunity is based on a MIG Welder career path and is being offered by Staffmark to qualified candidates.
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“The staff is great at keeping me up to date on job openings” -Donna, Staffmark Associate
Fire up your career. Apply now and weld your future.
What You Will Do
As a MIG WELDER you will prepare materials, set up welding equipment, perform MIG welding operations, inspect completed welds, read blueprints, verify measurements, and help fabricate metal components according to engineering specifications. You will maintain welding equipment, follow quality standards, and support safe, efficient manufacturing operations while producing consistent, high-quality work.
The MIG WELDER is responsible for joining metal components through MIG welding processes that support manufacturing, fabrication, and production operations. This role requires welding skill, technical knowledge, and a commitment to producing quality work.
Successful MIG WELDER professionals understand welding procedures, fabrication equipment, blueprint interpretation, and quality standards while maintaining efficient production and workplace safety. Consistency and attention to detail are essential for long-term success.
This career is ideal for individuals who enjoy hands-on fabrication and technical craftsmanship.
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 56% 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.
Memphis, TN currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 67 other active welding openings from 48 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Memphis, or widen the search to Tennessee.
Staffmark currently has 3 other openings 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 JOST International (3). 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.
See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. MIG WELDER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.