Advastar is a premier welder staffing agency specializing in recruiting certified welders and welding professionals for industrial construction, manufacturing, and fabrication projects nationwide. With over 60 years of combined industry experience, we’ve become the trusted welder staffing partner for general contractors, fabricators, and industrial facilities who need qualified welders to meet demanding production schedules, maintain weld quality standards, and ensure project safety.
Understanding Welder Staffing Requirements
At Advastar, we recognize that welder staffing goes beyond simply filling positions. It requires matching specific welding processes, material expertise, and certification requirements to your project needs. Our welder staffing services are customized for each client’s unique specifications—from identifying welders certified in TIG, MIG, stick, or flux-cored processes to ensuring proficiency with specific materials like stainless steel, aluminum, carbon steel, or exotic alloys. This specialized approach to welder staffing ensures we efficiently connect you with welding professionals who possess the exact qualifications your project demands.
Industry-Specific Welder Staffing Expertise
Our welder staffing agency has deep experience across diverse industrial sectors. We provide certified welders for structural steel fabrication in commercial construction, including high-rises, hospitals, and educational facilities. Our industrial welder staffing capabilities extend to critical infrastructure projects in power generation, petrochemical plants, refineries, pipeline construction, shipbuilding, and aerospace manufacturing. We also specialize in staffing welders for specialized applications like pressure vessel fabrication, boiler repairs, and sanitary welding for food and pharmaceutical facilities.
Comprehensive Welding Certifications and Qualifications
The welders in our talent network maintain current certifications that meet stringent industry standards. Our welder staffing database includes professionals with AWS (American Welding Society) certifications, ASME Section IX qualifications, API certifications for pipeline welding, and specialty endorsements for nuclear welding under NQA-1 standards. Many of our welders also hold combination certifications for multiple processes and positions (1G through 6G), along with required safety credentials including OSHA certifications, TWIC cards, and site-specific safety orientations. When you partner with our welder staffing agency, you can trust that every welder has been verified for both welding proficiency and safety compliance.
Proven Welder Staffing Solutions
Advastar’s track record in welder staffing speaks to our commitment to excellence. We maintain long-term partnerships with clients who rely on our ability to provide qualified welders for planned maintenance outages, emergency repairs, large-scale fabrication projects, and ongoing production needs. Whether you need a team of pipe welders for a refinery turnaround, structural welders for a new manufacturing facility, or specialized orbital welders for semiconductor fabrication, our welder staffing agency has the network and expertise to deliver.
Partner with Advastar’s welder staffing agency to access pre-qualified welding professionals who can meet your quality standards, production deadlines, and safety requirements.
Pressure vessels leave no margin for error. Our candidates bring code knowledge, confined-space readiness, and repair/install experience on boilers, tanks, and heat exchangers, completing work to Section IX with hydro, PWHT, and final inspection passed.
Process piping and pipelines live under pressure and scrutiny. We place pipefitters and welders qualified to ASME/API standards who can cut, fit, purge, and weld carbon, stainless, and alloy systems with verified NDE and tight documentation.
Wind, solar, and storage projects require fast ramp-ups and rigorous standards. We staff millwrights and welders for turbine towers, racking, skids, and balance-of-plant scopes who work safely, document diligently, and keep megawatts coming online.
Marine environments punish weak work. We place shipfitters and specialty welders skilled in aluminum, stainless, and heavy plate who handle tight tolerances, coatings, and class inspections so hulls, decks, and modules meet spec and sail on time.
Shops need predictable throughput and repeatable quality. We recruit fabricators, welders, and layout specialists who optimize jigs, minimize rework, and hit production targets while maintaining traceability, safety, and clean handoffs to field crews.
Structural work demands flawless fit-up, certified welds, and strict QA/QC. We staff ironworkers, fitters, and certified welders who read shop drawings, follow WPS/PQRs, and deliver safe, code-compliant steel packages on schedule.
As GE’s staffing partner of the year, we’re dedicated to serving our clients with world-class support, and we’d love to learn more about your objectives to create a custom welder recruiting solution for your next project: Contract Staffing, Contract-to-Hire, Direct Placement, or Payrolling Services.
We’ve been placing welders across the full spectrum of specialties for years. Our core expertise covers TIG welders who work on precision joints and MIG welders who handle production welding. We also place stick welders for field work and FCAW welders for heavy fabrication. For specialized projects, we find orbital welders who work on pharmaceutical and semiconductor applications, along with pipe welders certified for high-pressure systems. We regularly place structural welders for construction projects and combo welders who can switch between processes as needed. Our network includes sanitary welders for food and pharmaceutical facilities, plus specialists in aluminum and stainless steel work. Beyond the welders themselves, we also place welding supervisors who keep projects on track, certified welding inspectors (CWI) and certified welding educators (CWE) who ensure quality, and welding engineers who handle procedure development and troubleshooting.
We cover the full range of welding processes that modern industry requires. Whether you need TIG, MIG, stick (SMAW), flux-cored (FCAW), GTAW, GMAW, or submerged arc welding, we have qualified welders in our network. Our welders work with every material you’ll encounter in the field, from standard carbon steel to stainless steel, aluminum, and chrome-moly for high-temperature applications. We also have specialists who work with duplex stainless steels, Inconel for extreme environments, and other exotic alloys that require special techniques. Our welders are certified across all positions from 1G flat welding through 6G pipe welding in any position, so we can match their skills to your specific needs.
We take certification verification seriously because your project quality depends on it. Every welder’s AWS, ASME, and API qualifications are checked against issuing authorities to ensure they’re current and legitimate. We confirm that welders understand welding procedure specifications (WPS) and procedure qualification records (PQR) relevant to your work. We review their past welder performance qualifications (WPQs) to see what tests they’ve passed and on which materials. Our team also checks their experience with non-destructive testing methods so they understand what inspectors are looking for. When clients require it, we arrange practical weld tests including visual inspection, bend tests, X-ray, or ultrasonic testing, and we document all results for your records. This thorough vetting means you get welders who can pass your tests the first time.
We understand that different projects require different employment arrangements, so we offer all the options you might need. Contract placements work well for specific projects with defined timelines, while contract-to-hire lets you evaluate a welder’s performance before making a permanent offer. When you’re building your core team, we handle direct hire placements to find welders who’ll become long-term employees. We’re equally comfortable placing a single specialist for a specific task or assembling complete crews for large-scale outages, new construction projects, or ongoing production work. This flexibility means you can scale your welding workforce up or down as workload demands without the administrative burden.
Our welding recruitment team has deep experience across multiple industries. We regularly place welders in structural steel fabrication for buildings and bridges, and we understand the unique requirements of pressure vessel and boiler work. Pipeline projects are a specialty of ours, from transmission lines to distribution systems. We serve the petrochemical and refining sectors where weld quality is critical for safety, and we work with power generation facilities including nuclear, fossil, and renewable plants. Our network extends into shipbuilding and marine fabrication, aerospace manufacturing where precision is paramount, and food and pharmaceutical facilities requiring sanitary welding. We’ve also been increasingly active in data center construction where rapid deployment and quality are essential.
Speed matters in our business, especially when you’re facing deadlines or emergency repairs. We can often present qualified candidates within days of receiving your requirements because we maintain a pre-qualified network of welders ready to travel. Before anyone heads to your site, we verify they have the right tools for the job, proper PPE that meets your safety standards, and any site access requirements like TWIC cards or MSHA training. We coordinate start dates that work for your schedule, confirm shift availability including nights and weekends if needed, and arrange per diem details for travelers. This preparation means welders arrive ready to work, not spending their first days getting organized.
Safety is non-negotiable in welding work, and we make sure every welder we place meets your safety requirements. We verify current OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certifications and ensure welders have completed necessary site-specific orientations. Our screening includes checking for lockout/tagout training and hot work permit understanding, both critical for industrial welding. For welders who’ll work in confined spaces, we confirm they have the proper training and medical clearances. We verify respirator fit testing for environments requiring respiratory protection, and we carefully review each welder’s TRIR and incident history. This comprehensive safety screening protects your workers, your facility, and your company’s safety record.
We absolutely can assemble complete teams for your fabrication and field projects. Beyond welders, we provide pipe fitters who understand fit-up tolerances, riggers certified for material handling, and helpers who keep the work flowing efficiently. We include QC inspectors and CWIs to ensure quality at every step, plus experienced foremen who coordinate the entire operation. Our teams work seamlessly with your project managers and general contractors, following weld maps and isometric drawings precisely. We understand inspection hold points and ensure work is ready for each inspection phase. This turnkey approach means you get a coordinated team that works together efficiently rather than a collection of individuals figuring it out as they go.
Documentation is critical in welding work, and we help ensure yours is complete and accurate. We coordinate all necessary weld tests and track results, managing welder performance qualifications (WPQs) to ensure everyone is current. Our team helps maintain continuity logs that track who welded what and when, and we ensure proper WPS sign-offs are obtained. We coordinate with NDT providers to schedule inspections at the right times, avoiding delays. When it’s time for quality audits or client reviews, we help prepare turnover packages that include all required documentation organized and ready for review. This attention to paperwork means your projects pass QA/QC audits smoothly and avoid costly rework or delays.
We’re confident in our ability to match the right welder to your needs, and we back that up with real guarantees. For permanent placements, we offer a defined replacement window during which we’ll find a replacement at no additional cost if things don’t work out. Throughout the assignment, we conduct regular performance check-ins to ensure welders are meeting your productivity expectations and quality standards. We monitor their integration with your team and address any issues before they become problems. If a welder isn’t performing to standard, we work quickly to either resolve the issue or provide a replacement. Our goal is to be a reliable partner you can count on for skilled welding talent, not just another staffing company that disappears after placement.