Fabricator/Layout/Welder
Location
Jacksonville, FL
Wage
$17 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 5, 2026
Location
Jacksonville, FL
Wage
$17 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 5, 2026
The position requires at least 4 years of welding and fabrication experience, with a focus on self-starting and minimal supervision.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 30% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Jacksonville, FL, where the middle half runs $32–$37/hr across 10 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.
We're tracking 31 other active welding openings in Jacksonville, FL right now, from 12 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 267 other active welding openings from 135 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Jacksonville, or widen the search to Florida.
The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (27), Honeywell Technologies (13), and BAE Systems (10). 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. Jacksonville is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fabricator/Layout/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.