Job Description

Overview

At Benchmark, we are driven by our purpose to innovate for a healthier, safer, and better-connected world. As a Finisher I, you will be part of a team that cleans, deburrs, and cosmetically finishes machined parts, contributing to meaningful impacts across various sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Receives, stores, and issues hand tools, machine tools, dies, materials, and equipment.
  • Reads and understands finishing requirements from routers, drawings, and specifications.
  • Cleans, deburrs, and completes cosmetic finishing of machined parts utilizing various tools and supplies.
  • Works under direct supervision on standardized duties and tasks.
  • Completes required documents and provides supervisor with accurate daily production data.
  • Trains and assists co-workers with determining best methods to achieve desired results.
  • Works at different workstations to meet production requirements.
  • Maintains tools and equipment in proper working order.
  • Performs preventive maintenance as directed/scheduled.
  • Maintains adequate supplies for finishing area.
  • Works as a member of a team.
  • Maintains a safe, neat, clean and orderly work environment.
  • Actively promotes safety, production, and quality standards.
  • Performs other related duties as required or directed.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required.
  • Ability to read, write and perform basic math.
  • >2 years working with related materials and processes.
  • Quality orientation and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated experience in mentoring and training others.

Additional Information

  • Physical Location: Tempe, AZ
  • Shift: Shift 2 (week nights)
  • Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 3:15pm-11:45pm
  • Full Time

How this job compares in Tempe, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Tempe, AZ currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$35/hr across 12 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Tempe, AZ

We're tracking 39 other active welding openings in Tempe, AZ right now, from 29 different employers. 20 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 495 other active welding openings from 293 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tempe, or widen the search to Arizona.

Benchmark currently has 1 other opening live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are EZARC (18), Sundt Construction (15), and U-Haul (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Mirage at $38/hr, Waddell at $34/hr, and Mesa at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Tempe, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Finisher I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.