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Overview

Join our team as a Welder in Gallatin, TN, responsible for MIG welding steel components according to blueprint specifications. This position requires reading and interpreting blueprints to determine specific welding requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Perform MIG welding on steel components following blueprint specifications.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and drawings to identify welding requirements.

Requirements

  • 1.5 - 3 years of experience in MIG welding.
  • Proficiency in reading and interpreting blueprints.
  • Strong skills in MIG welding and steel work.
  • Ability to quickly adapt and work independently with minimal training.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Gallatin, TN.
  • The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $26.00/hr.
  • Work environment is a dynamic job shop with dedicated areas for design, metal cutting/forming, welding & fabrication, and painting & production finishing.
  • The company operates on three shifts: 1st shift from 6:00am to 2:30pm, 2nd shift from 2:15pm to 10:45pm, and 3rd shift from 10:30pm to 6:30am.
  • This is a fully onsite position.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

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 32 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 Gallatin, TN

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 85 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.

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