**Welder/Fabricators in Pulaski, TN** **Job Description** Join our team as a welder, where you will use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components, or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. **Responsibilities** + 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 workpieces for defects and measure workpieces 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 of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material. + 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 workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers. + Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter. + Preheat workpieces 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 workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools. + Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments. **Essential Skills** + Mig and Tig welding techniques. + Experience in welding with aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel. + Blueprint reading. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + High School Diploma or equivalent. + Technical School Certificate in welding (desired but not required). + Minimum 1 year of experience in welding. **Why Work Here?** Enjoy working with good equipment and in a spacious environment while engaging in a variety of work that provides new experiences every day. Our competitive pay scale is among the top in the industry, and you will have the opportunity to be part of projects involving exciting builds such as rocket components and missiles. **Work Environment** Work in a fabrication shop that is enclosed but not climate controlled. Expect a typical environment for a fabrication shop of this size, which might be dirty or rough, but manageable. Openings are available for 1st shift (Mon-Thurs 6am-4:30pm, with overtime on Fri and Sat) and 2nd shift (Mon-Thurs 4pm-12:30am, with overtime on Fri and Sat). **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract position based out of Pulaski, Tennessee. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $18.00 - $23.00/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) **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Pulaski,TN. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Nov 7, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.