Rig Welder
Location
Keenesburg, CO
Wage
$80,657/yr
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Keenesburg, CO
Wage
$80,657/yr
Posted on August 24, 2026
Wood is currently sourcing for a Rig Welder for a project in Keenesburg, CO. The company is a global leader in consulting, engineering, and operations for the energy and materials sectors.
At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 44% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Colorado — toward the top of a $24–$32/hr middle band drawn from 72 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Keenesburg, CO, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 89 other active welding openings from 59 employers. Browse welding jobs across Colorado.
The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (9), Honeywell Technologies (4), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arvada at $30/hr, Denver at $28/hr, and Colorado Springs at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Rig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.