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Overview

Integrated Power Services (IPS) is seeking a skilled Manual Machinist to join their team, where employees are encouraged to grow and make a meaningful impact while balancing personal and professional life. The company values teamwork, integrity, and safety, providing opportunities for career development and a supportive work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose incoming units, disassemble, repair, assemble, and prepare items for shipment.
  • Operate conventional manual machining tools including engine lathes, horizontal lathes, milling machines, grinders, drilling machines, and related equipment.
  • Safely use overhead, gantry cranes, lift trucks, and associated lift rigging.
  • Perform mechanical measurements using portable mechanical instruments such as dial indicators, micrometers, and portable vibration measurement equipment.
  • Machine and fabricate parts using engine lathes, grinders, and drill presses.
  • Draw accurate prints for parts needing to be fabricated.
  • Perform mechanical rebuilds on rotating apparatus repairs like electric motors, pumps, and fans.
  • Measure and record data using calipers, dial indicators, micrometers, and vibration meters.
  • Use multi-meters, meggers, Baker instruments, and measure winding resistance, RTD and heater resistances, and mechanical fits and clearances.
  • Adhere to shop safety policies.
  • Participate in daily operations discussions on customer products.

Requirements

  • 3 or more years of experience as a machinist for electric motor repair preferred.
  • Ability to read micrometer measuring equipment.
  • Motor shop, machine shop, tool & die stamping, or oil field experience preferred.
  • Ability to operate manual lathes of various sizes and dimensions.
  • Ability to operate metalizing equipment.
  • Ability to work with tolerances of +/- .001.
  • Ability to perform basic math functions.
  • Ability to understand, perform, and retain various job-related training, operational, and safety procedures.
  • Welding and fabrication experience preferred.
  • Self-starter and highly motivated person.
  • Willingness to work overtime and weekends as required.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$40/hr across 25 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 Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 51 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 39 different employers. 23 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 274 other active welding openings from 181 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

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

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Phillips Tank & Structure (8), Johnson Controls (7), and Greene Tweed (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr, Braddock at $31/hr, and York at $27/hr. Philadelphia is among them.

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