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Job Description

Overview

Mesa Public Schools has been recognized multiple times as one of the Best Employers in Arizona and the Best Place to Work in East Valley. The Utility Worker - Maintenance position involves performing maintenance, repairs, and installations on various types of equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Travel throughout the district assisting journeymen with their assigned tasks.
  • Perform maintenance, repairs, and installations on all types of equipment, individually or with others, not requiring the skills of a journeyman.
  • Rotate between operations shops according to the Director of Maintenance.
  • Regular and on-time attendance required.
  • Perform other related duties, as assigned, to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
  • Assist with other assigned duties as appropriate to the area of assignment and Mesa Public Schools.

Requirements

  • High School education or equivalent.
  • Valid Arizona driver's license.
  • Experience in the maintenance field.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Retirement matched through the Arizona State Retirement System

Additional Information

  • Full-time position (40 hours per week).
  • Base hourly rate of $17.12.
  • 1% of the base hourly rate granted for each year of verified like experience (up to ten years).
  • 1% of the base hourly rate awarded for an AA or higher degree if not required for the position.
  • Drug and alcohol testing required for new hires.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Retirement matched through the Arizona State Retirement System
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How this job compares in Mesa, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 48% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Mesa, AZ, where the middle half runs $25–$35/hr across 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 7% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Mesa, AZ

We're tracking 50 other active welding openings in Mesa, AZ right now, from 42 different employers. 28 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 Mesa, or widen the search to Arizona.

Mesa Public Schools 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 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 Mesa at $33/hr. Mesa 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. Utility Worker - Maintenance figures were last recalculated when this page was built.