Auto Body Technician
Location
Ashland, MA
Wage
$30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
MIG Welding
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Posted on November 10, 2026
Job Description
Overview
As an Auto Body Technician, you’ll restore damaged vehicles through careful structural, mechanical, and cosmetic repair. Your impact: Accurate repairs help customers get vehicles back in dependable, road-ready condition.
Responsibilities
- Inspect vehicle damage and complete automotive structural repair, dent repair, cosmetic repair, and auto restoration work.
- Perform MIG welding, welding repair, sheet metal fabrication, soldering, and fabrication repair techniques as needed.
- Remove, repair, and install automotive parts, glass, and assemblies; support vehicle maintenance and related mechanical repairs.
- Sand, refinish, paint, spray coatings with airless paint equipment, and detail vehicles to meet repair specifications.
- Use auto estimating information to plan work, handle heavy components safely, and communicate professionally with customers and teammates.
Requirements
- Experience working as an automotive body technician; dealership experience and mechanic experience are valued.
- Knowledge of auto body repair, automotive repair, mechanical systems, and vehicle maintenance.
- Proficiency with hand tools, power tools, sanding tools, automotive welding equipment, and welding methods.
- Familiarity with fabrication, sheet metal, automotive body refinishing, auto painting, assembly, auto glass, and automotive parts installation.
- Customer service and auto estimating skills are helpful; attention to detail and safe heavy lifting are important.
Benefits
- 401k
- PTO
Additional Information
- Work Location: In person
- Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week
Benefits
401k
PTO
How this job compares in Ashland, MA
Pay in context
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts, whose middle half runs $30–$40/hr across 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
The local market in Ashland, MA
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Ashland, MA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 35 other active welding openings from 25 employers. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.
The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Boston, MA (3), Commonwealth Fusion Systems (3), and Personnel People (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
What you'll be running
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.
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