Shop Welder (Up To 27​/hr

Welder

Join our team as a welder, where you will utilize hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to join metal components or fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Your expertise will contribute to various projects, ensuring high-quality standards in metal fabrication.

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure them with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Weld separately or in combination using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or distortion of materials.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Remove rough spots from work pieces using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring they are free from loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending using torches or heating furnaces.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Position and secure work pieces using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.

• Experience with Mig and Tig welding.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Proficiency in welding on stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum alloys.
• Minimum 1 year of welding experience.

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Technical School Certificate in welding (desired but not required).

Enjoy working with good equipment and spacious facilities, where you will be engaged in a variety of work daily. Benefit from a competitive pay scale and the opportunity to work on exciting projects, including rocket components and missiles.

Work in a fabrication shop that is enclosed but not climate-controlled. The environment is typical for a fabrication shop, being rough and tough. Positions are available for 1st shift:
Monday-Thursday, 6am-4:30pm, with overtime on Friday and Saturday.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Pulaski, TN.

The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $27.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Pulaski, TN.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 14, 2026.