Job Description

Overview

The Auto Body Technician at TN Shelbyville is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through quality vehicle repairs, ensuring alignment with the company's standards of speed, quality, and customer excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure consistent execution of the WOW (Wow Operating Way) plan.
  • Plan the necessary repair work and prepare cost estimates for customers.
  • Use various tools to repair sections of a vehicle.
  • Hammer out dents and minor body damage when possible.
  • Mix and apply filler resins for dent repairs when necessary.
  • Realign car chassis and frames to repair structural damage.
  • Remove damaged sections of vehicles and replace them with new or aftermarket parts.
  • Replace or repair glass and windshields as needed.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent required.
  • Successful completion of a technical school program or a 3-year apprenticeship as an auto body repairer.
  • Ability to read job orders and work with very little supervision.
  • Ability to work with other repairers within an auto body shop.
  • Thorough understanding of methods and procedures to repair vehicle bodies.
  • Thorough understanding of how to use tools required for the trade.
  • Must be able to work safely in a noisy area with many odors present.
  • Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds at times.
  • Must be able to visually inspect vehicle damage in various weather conditions.
  • Must be able to bend, stretch, kneel, and squat to perform repairs and inspections.

Benefits

  • $75,000+ annually depending on flagged hours per week.

Benefits

$75,000+ annually depending on flagged hours per week

How this job compares in Shelbyville, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 29% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee — toward the top of a $21–$31/hr middle band drawn from 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 81% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Shelbyville, TN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Shelbyville, TN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 71 other active welding openings from 54 employers. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.

The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Mueller Water Products (4), Staffmark (3), and Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Shelbyville, TN

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Auto Body Technician (Flat Rate) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.