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Job Description

Overview

We are currently expanding our structural steel erecting company and are looking for enthusiastic, hard-working Journeyman Ironworkers to join our team in the Phoenix area. If you take pride in your work, show up ready to get it done, and want to be part of a growing company, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • Install and erect structural steel members to form skeletal structures for buildings, bridges, stairs, canopies, and other structures.
  • Weld and cut steel and interpret blueprints.
  • Install iron or steel girders, columns, and other construction materials.
  • Erect and place structural steel members such as columns, beams, joists, and girders.
  • Direct operation of cranes to move structural steel and other materials.
  • Connect steel columns, beams, and girders with bolts using sleever bars, spud wrench, joist chain or lever hoist.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3 years experience as a structural steel ironworker.
  • High school or equivalent (Preferred).
  • 2 years of welding experience (Preferred).

Benefits

  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • PTO
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Work Location: On the road.

Benefits

Dental
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
PTO
Vision
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How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ, whose middle half runs $26–$36/hr across 62 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 218 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 140 different employers. 87 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 495 other active welding openings from 292 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Phoenix, or widen the search to Arizona.

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 Phoenix at $32/hr. Phoenix is among them.

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