Light Mig Welder Associate
Location
Russellville, AR
Wage
$15/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 2, 2026
Location
Russellville, AR
Wage
$15/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 2, 2026
Now hiring for a Light Mig Welder Associate
Location: Russellville, AR
Pay Rate: $15.00 per hour
Schedule: Monday – Thursday, 4:00 AM – 2:30 PMc
Heat Up Your Career – Become a MIG Welder with Us
Looking for Light Mig Welder Associate jobs in Russellville 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.
We are currently seeking a motivated and dependable Light MIG Welder / General Metal Worker to join our team. This position is responsible for performing light MIG welding, grinding, and general metal fabrication duties in a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will be safety-conscious, detail-oriented, and capable of performing repetitive tasks while maintaining quality standards.
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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“I have no complaints. They’ve always been really nice and helpful anytime I’ve needed anything.” — Welder, Staffmark.
Heat it up, lock it in. This MIG welder spot is yours.
What You Will Do
As a Light Mig Welder Associate 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.
A Light Mig Welder Associate supports fabrication operations through skilled MIG welding, accurate material preparation, and quality-focused workmanship. This role requires technical ability, precision, and a strong commitment to workplace safety.
The Light Mig Welder Associate works with fabrication equipment, welding tools, and engineering drawings to manufacture durable metal components while maintaining established quality standards. Dependable performance contributes directly to production success.
This profession is ideal for individuals who take pride in producing quality welded products.
At roughly $15/hr, this posting comes in about 37% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas, where the middle half runs $20–$30/hr across 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
Russellville, AR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 39 other active welding openings from 32 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.
Staffmark 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 Systems, LLC. (3), L&L Metal Fabrication (2), and Veterans Health Administration (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.
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. Light Mig Welder Associate figures were last recalculated when this page was built.