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Job Description

Overview

The Welder/Fabricator role involves welding products and maintaining tools and equipment to meet quality and production standards. The position is offered by Aerotek, a staffing and services solutions provider.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG welding and fabrication tasks.
  • Maintain welding tools and equipment in excellent working condition.
  • Ensure all welding activities meet quality and production standards.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and tape measure accurately.
  • Utilize weld fixtures for part layout.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in MIG welding and fabrication.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and tape measure.
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to read and understand work order routings and instructions.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Ooltewah, TN.
  • This is a fully onsite position in Ooltewah, TN.
  • Application deadline is anticipated to close on Nov 23, 2026.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Ooltewah, TN

Pay in context

At roughly $25/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 32 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Ooltewah, TN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Ooltewah, TN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Tennessee as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 62 employers. 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.

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.

See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder/fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.