Welder
Location
Louisville, KY
Posted on October 29, 2026
Location
Louisville, KY
Posted on October 29, 2026
Rumpke is a family-owned company in the waste and recycling industry, dedicated to providing exceptional waste and recycling solutions through a commitment to safety and service. As a Welder, you will be responsible for repairing containers, fleet vehicles, and compactors while enjoying competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Kentucky currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$45/hr across 10 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Louisville, KY currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 18 other active welding openings from 16 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Louisville, or widen the search to Kentucky.
Rumpke Waste & Recycling currently has 1 other opening live in Kentucky, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Messer Construction Co. (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 and Stick work. 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.