SENIOR WELDER FABRICATION SPECIALIST with Security Clearance
Location
Patrick AFB, FL
Wage
$36.35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Patrick AFB, FL
Wage
$36.35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
The Senior Welder Fabrication Specialist position at McKinley Climatic Laboratory involves fabricating components for climatic simulations and providing welding support. The role requires expertise in various welding techniques and the ability to work independently on complex tasks.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Florida — toward the top of a $22–$29/hr middle band drawn from 24 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Patrick AFB, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 264 other active welding openings from 129 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.
The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (22), Honeywell Technologies (13), and BAE Systems (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Miami at $35/hr, Cape Canaveral at $32/hr, and Jacksonville at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. SENIOR WELDER FABRICATION SPECIALIST with Security Clearance figures were last recalculated when this page was built.