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Job Description

Overview

U-Haul Company is seeking a resourceful MIG Welder to join its manufacturing team, where welders are responsible for welding trucks, trailers, and support equipment for the largest do-it-yourself moving company in the world. The company offers a hands-on working interview and a $100 hiring bonus.

Responsibilities

  • Performs all-position MIG welding to join steel and aluminum metals from 1/16" to 1" thick plate.
  • Interprets and carries out work orders, blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions.
  • Clamps parts into jigs or holding fixtures.
  • Cleans burrs, spatter, and weld flux from assemblies.
  • Hand-counts material for inventory purposes.
  • Wears and maintains protective clothing and equipment including a welding helmet, gloves, cotton clothing, safety glasses, and steel-toe safety shoes.
  • Follows all safety practices during assembly and production operations and ensures that work areas are maintained in a safe, clean, and orderly manner.

Requirements

  • Successfully complete a plant-administered welding test.
  • Regular attendance is essential.

Benefits

  • Career stability
  • Opportunities for advancement
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is from 8:30 PM to 4:30 AM.
  • The work involves moderate risks or discomforts requiring special safety precautions.

Benefits

Career stability
Opportunities for advancement
Health Insurance
PTO
Life Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Glendale, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Arizona currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$35/hr across 173 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 Glendale, AZ

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Glendale, AZ right now, from 13 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 495 other active welding openings from 293 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Glendale, or widen the search to Arizona.

U-Haul currently has 8 other openings 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 EZARC (18), Sundt Construction (15), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (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 Mesa at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

Similar openings near Glendale, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder 830pm-430am figures were last recalculated when this page was built.