Location
Gallatin, TN
Wage
$22 – $26/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on November 10, 2026
Aerotek is hiring Welders in Gallatin, TN, responsible for MIG welding steel components according to blueprint specifications and drawings. The position offers a pay range of $22.00 to $26.00 per hour.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Tennessee, whose middle half runs $21–$30/hr across 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Gallatin, TN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 84 other active welding openings from 62 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Tennessee.
Aerotek currently has 2 other openings live in Tennessee, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Tennessee at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Mueller Water Products (5), Welding Shop in Nashville, TN (4), and JLG Industries (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Immediate Hiring For Welder In Gallatin, TN, US, Paying Up To 22.00$ To 26.00$ Per Hour APPLY NOW figures were last recalculated when this page was built.