Welder - 1st Shift
Location
Malvern, AR
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Malvern, AR
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 27, 2026
Systems, LLC, an affiliate of Chamberlain Group, is a U.S.-based manufacturer of loading dock equipment. The company is committed to recruiting top talent and providing opportunities for continuing education and training.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas, where the middle half runs $20–$30/hr across 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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.
Malvern, AR currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 42 other active welding openings from 36 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Malvern, or widen the search to Arkansas.
Systems, LLC. currently has 2 other openings live in Arkansas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (3), L&L Metal Fabrication (2), and Systems, LLC. (2). 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.