We’re hiring a Shift Lead - Fabricator / Welder for our custom metal fabrication shop serving commercial and industrial projects throughout the Nashville region.
This is a fabricator-first leadership role where you’ll read blueprints, lay out parts, fit complex weldments, and perform MIG welding on custom builds while helping lead the 2nd shift. We’re looking for someone who brings strong fabrication and blueprint experience to the floor and can serve as a steady, dependable presence for the team.
You’ll help set the pace within your production pod, maintain quality standards, catch issues before they become problems, and keep projects moving from layout through final fabrication. Along with producing quality work yourself, you’ll help drive tempo, accountability, and output across the shift by keeping priorities clear and helping the team stay productive and on track.
We’re looking for experienced fabricators who enjoy blueprint-driven custom work and take pride in building quality products from the ground up.
Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”
Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.
Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.
We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.
We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.
