Mechanical Designer 3 - Nuclear Power
Location
Wilmington, DE
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 4, 2026
Location
Wilmington, DE
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 4, 2026
This position at Sargent & Lundy allows for a hybrid work schedule and offers the opportunity to work with multi-disciplined engineering and design project teams in developing mechanical design deliverables for nuclear power projects.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 22% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs across Delaware — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 79% 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.
We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Wilmington, DE right now, from 7 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Delaware as a whole we're tracking 24 other active welding openings from 18 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Wilmington, or widen the search to Delaware.
Sargent & Lundy currently has 3 other openings live in Delaware, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Delaware at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sargent & Lundy (3), Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc. (3), and Baltimore Aircoil Company - USA (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mechanical Designer 3 - Nuclear Power figures were last recalculated when this page was built.