Senior Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician - NHC (Contract)
Location
Columbus, MS
Wage
$42/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 3, 2026
Location
Columbus, MS
Wage
$42/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on November 3, 2026
Build the Future of Flight as a Senior Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician with PDS Tech Commercial, a global leader in the aerospace industry. This role offers an opportunity to work on advanced rotorcraft systems and make a lasting impact on the future of aviation.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs across Mississippi — toward the top of a $28–$39/hr middle band drawn from 32 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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.
Columbus, MS currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Mississippi as a whole we're tracking 79 other active welding openings from 42 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Columbus, or widen the search to Mississippi.
The most active employers in Mississippi at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are HII (13), TIC - The Industrial Company (11), and Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Division of HII (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Senior Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician - NHC (Contract) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.