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Overview

Join Sundt, one of Arizona's leading builders, as a Structural Ironworker Welder for a high-profile industrial project. This role offers long-term opportunities for skilled craftsmen with competitive pay and the chance to work with a professional team.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, lay-out and perform all types of structural steel erection and fabrication work.
  • Continually seek opportunities to share knowledge and teach others.
  • Eliminate waste such as waiting, rework, transporting, material storage and time.
  • Inspect subordinates' work, ensure accuracy and compliance with plans and specifications.
  • Lift and carry heavy items up to 50 pounds.
  • Look for opportunities for improvement in all tasks and be willing to learn from others.
  • Maintain positive working relationships with all members of the crew.
  • Produce high quality work, safely and productively at all times.
  • Provide feedback to ensure all materials, tools, equipment and information is available for the work.

Requirements

  • Must be able to read and understand drawings, specifications, safety and quality standards.
  • Must have a minimum of three to six plus years of experience in the industrial/commercial construction industry.
  • Possess effective verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 40+ hours minimum per week with overtime opportunities.
  • Applicants must pass a pre-employment drug screening.
  • Reliable transportation is required.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 13% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ — toward the top of a $23–$39/hr middle band drawn from 83 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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 Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 188 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 116 different employers. 24 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 456 other active welding openings from 232 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.

Sundt Construction currently has 28 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 Sundt Construction (28), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (17), and EZARC (16). 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 Tempe at $32/hr, Phoenix at $30/hr, and Surprise at $30/hr. Phoenix is among them.

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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. Structural Welder - Phoenix, AZ figures were last recalculated when this page was built.