Job Description

Overview

The position requires at least 4 years of welding and fabrication experience, with a focus on self-starting and minimal supervision.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of welding and fabrication experience
  • Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Must be able to pass a drug test
  • Must be able to pass a background check
  • Ability to use iron worker, press brake, and other steel manufacturing machines is helpful
  • Deal with customers in a courteous and professional manner

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • PTO
  • Retirement Plan
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Work Location: In person

Employment Type

  • Full-time

Compensation

  • $17.00 - $28.00 per hour

Benefits

401k
Dental
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
PTO
Retirement Plan
Vision

How this job compares in Jacksonville, FL

Pay in context

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.

The local market in Jacksonville, FL

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.

Similar openings near Jacksonville, FL

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.