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Mobile Industrial Welder — Fuel Tanks, Frames & Enclosures

Location

Dousman, WI

Wage

$22/hr

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on November 10, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Join us as a mobile industrial welder and bring your MIG skills to complex, heavy-gauge steel projects while enjoying steady hours and a daily per diem for travel.

Responsibilities

  • Execute MIG (GMAW) welding on heavy-gauge steel: fuel tanks, frames, and enclosures.
  • Weld confidently in flat, vertical, and overhead positions.
  • Use blueprints and precise measurements to guide fabrication.
  • Clamp, position, tack, grind, and assemble parts to spec.
  • Inspect welds and resolve routine quality issues.
  • Adhere to safety protocols and quality standards.

Requirements

  • MIG/GMAW experience preferred.
  • Ability to read blueprints and a tape measure.
  • Detail-focused and eager to learn.
  • Dependable team player.
  • Open to 1st or 2nd shift and overtime.
  • Pass background check and 5-panel drug test.
  • Pass pre-employment physical.
  • Pass written test and basic weld test on first day.

Additional Information

  • Location: Greenfield, WI.
  • Pay: $22/hour.
  • Per Diem: $100/day (for days worked).
  • Shifts: 1st or 2nd.
  • Hours: Up to 60 per week.
  • Overtime: May be available with supervisor approval.
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How this job compares in Dousman, WI

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 15% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Wisconsin, where the middle half runs $23–$29/hr across 80 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% 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 Dousman, WI

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Dousman, WI, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Wisconsin as a whole we're tracking 145 other active welding openings from 92 employers. Browse welding jobs across Wisconsin.

The most active employers in Wisconsin at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are QPS Employment Group (17), Wabash (6), and Generac (5). 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.

Similar openings near Dousman, WI

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mobile Industrial Welder — Fuel Tanks, Frames & Enclosures figures were last recalculated when this page was built.