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Overview

Boeing is seeking an Experienced Fabrication Specialist to join the Air Dominance Operations team in Mesa, AZ. The role involves working in the Advanced Composite Fabrication Center and requires strong teamwork, communication, and leadership skills in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develops lay-up and assembly set-ups and techniques for the fabrication of composite structural and assemblies.
  • Sets up and troubleshoots composite parts for assembly or layup.
  • Assembles, lays up, or supports via autoclave, GFM, and other processes the fabrication of parts and components.
  • Identifies nonconforming detail parts, assemblies, and processes, and works with engineering to improve manufacturing processes.
  • Fabrics composite detail parts using various pre-preg composite materials and/or wet layup processes.
  • Locates station lines, index points, and E.O.P lines to establish exact locations of ply installations and components.
  • Assembles and installs detail composite and metallic components by bonding, sealing, cementing, and riveting to engineering specifications.
  • Sets up, weighs, mixes, and applies composite adhesives per engineering and company specifications.
  • Preps and applies required release agents to composite prototype and/or production tooling per company specifications.
  • Maintains working knowledge of composite material bonding best practices, FOD control, and prevention.

Requirements

  • Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
  • Must have High School Diploma/GED or equivalent.
  • Must have related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience related to work experience in Composites.
  • Must have experience interpreting and working from blueprints, sketches, and written and verbal instructions in English.
  • Available to work any shift.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This position requires travel up to 10% of the time.
  • Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
  • This position is for variable shift.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Mesa, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Mesa, AZ — toward the top of a $28–$38/hr middle band drawn from 24 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Mesa, AZ

We're tracking 55 other active welding openings in Mesa, AZ right now, from 32 different employers. 14 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 479 other active welding openings from 245 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mesa, or widen the search to Arizona.

Boeing 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 Sundt Construction (27), EZARC (18), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (17). 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 Chandler at $36/hr, Tempe at $32/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. Experienced Fabrication Specialist (Preparing and Painting) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.