The welder
marketplace.
Who this is for
WeldRunners is built for three groups of people: welders looking for work, shops trying to hire welders, and customers who need welding done. Plus everyone earlier on the path — students picking a school, apprentices stacking certs, pipe welders comparing per-diem packages.
We're welding-vertical on purpose. Generic job boards bury 6G pipe work under "welder near me" and treat AWS D1.1 like a buzzword. Yelp and Thumbtack treat welding like lawn care. Neither works when the job is a sheared trailer hitch on a Sunday afternoon, a stainless tank rebuild that has to pass inspection, or a billboard-budget pipefitting recruiter.
What's on it
- JobsWelder jobs tagged by certification (6G, AWS D1.1, ASME IX, API 1104), process, industry, and travel terms. Filters that generic boards can't do.
- WeldersWelders post availability — certs, processes, travel radius, dates. Shops contact them through us; emails stay private.
- ProjectsCustomers post one-off welding work. Nearby shops and mobile rigs send quotes.
- Shops~3,200 fabrication shops and mobile rigs across 50 states. The original directory, still live.
- The journeyCertifications explained, schools, career paths, salary data, equipment guides. Structured for humans and AI search.
The shop directory
Three buckets:
- ShopFixed-location fabrication. Custom railings, structural, biotech stainless, tank work, CNC and plasma. Bigger jobs that need a table and a crane.
- MobileTruck rigs that come to your job. Ranch gates, fleet trucks, pipeline emergency repair, marina hardware — anything that can't leave the site.
- BothShops with rigs on the road. The most common setup for operations doing more than $250k/year.
How it works
Listings are free. Providers submit a profile, we review for legitimacy, and we publish it under their state, city, materials, and services. Verified badges come from license and insurance verification — providers send us documentation, we check it, the badge appears.
We don't take a cut of jobs. We don't auction leads. We don't spam buyers with affiliate links. If we ever charge providers, it'll be for things they ask us to add — featured placement, lead routing, a CMS for their profile — not for the basic right to exist in the directory.