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Job Description

Overview

The 2nd Shift Structural Welder position involves working with steel beams and plates, utilizing welding machines and overhead crane systems. The role requires reading blueprints and performing various welding operations on a 10-hour shift from Monday to Thursday, with potential overtime on Fridays.

Responsibilities

  • Run overhead crane system to handle steel beams, plates, and assemblies.
  • Read blueprint drawings to obtain necessary information for correct welding.
  • Operate all welding machines and position welding and needle guns for required operations.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Shift/Hours: Mon - Thur. - 3:30 PM to 2:00 AM, 10 hours, 4 days a week.
  • Some overtime on Fridays when needed.
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How this job compares in Goodyear, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 41% below the $37/hr median for structural welder jobs across Arizona, where the middle half runs $24–$39/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 10% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Goodyear, AZ

We're tracking 11 other active welding openings in Goodyear, AZ right now, from 6 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 285 other active welding openings from 175 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Goodyear, or widen the search to Arizona.

PrideStaff 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 Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (9), Sundt Construction (8), and Comfort Systems USA Southwest (7). 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 Mesa at $38/hr, El Mirage at $38/hr, and Phoenix at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. 2nd Shift Structural Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.