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Job Description

Overview

As a Railcar Prep & Repair team member, you’ll prepare railcars for service and help keep them safe and reliable. You’ll inspect equipment, identify repair needs, and complete maintenance using appropriate tools and procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect railcars and mechanical systems; identify damage, wear, and maintenance needs.
  • Perform railcar pre-trip, mechanical inspection & repair.
  • Use hand tools, power tools and welding machines.
  • Read schematics and follow safety regulations, work procedures, and maintenance, repair and operations practices.
  • Handle materials safely, document completed work, and communicate clearly with team members and customers.

Requirements

  • Mechanical knowledge and experience with mechanical systems repair are important.
  • Familiarity with hand tools, power tools, manual handling, and mechanical repair is needed.
  • Welding experience and the ability to use a cutting torch preferred.
  • Customer service skills and experience with maintenance, repair and operations are valued.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
Dental
Health Insurance
Vision
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How this job compares in Spring Hill, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 29% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, where the middle half runs $22–$30/hr across 32 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 3% 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.

The local market in Spring Hill, TN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Spring Hill, 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 85 other active welding openings from 61 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 (5), Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), and JLG Industries (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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