Welding Fabricator
Location
Dothan, AL
Wage
$18 – $20/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 23, 2026
Location
Dothan, AL
Wage
$18 – $20/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 23, 2026
Now hiring for a Welding Fabricator
Location: Dothan, AL
Pay Rate: $18.00 – $20.00 per hour
Schedule: 1st shift
MIG Welders: Build, Bond, and Bank Bucks
Looking for Welding Fabricator jobs in Dothan 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 Welder career path and is being offered by Staffmark to qualified candidates.
Education Requirements
Experience Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
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Benefits
“Staffmark keeps you busy, they have excellent workers who are friendly and always willing to help you out” -Kevin, Staffmark Associate
Strong welds, strong future. Apply now to join the crew.
What You Will Do
As a Welding Fabricator 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 Welding Fabricator manufactures welded metal products through skilled MIG welding, fabrication, and quality inspection practices. This role requires technical knowledge, strong work habits, and attention to detail while supporting manufacturing operations.
Successful Welding Fabricator candidates understand welding safety, blueprint interpretation, and fabrication techniques while producing consistent, high-quality welds that meet engineering requirements. Reliable workmanship contributes directly to operational success.
This career is well suited for individuals who enjoy welding and producing precision metal assemblies.
At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 30% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 40 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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.
Dothan, AL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 57 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Alabama.
Staffmark currently has 5 other openings live in Alabama, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (7), Austal USA (5), and Staffmark (5). 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 welder fabricator 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. Welding Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.