Senior Mechanical Designer 1 - Nuclear
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$77,890 – $118,999/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$77,890 – $118,999/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
The Senior Mechanical Designer 1 - Nuclear position at Sargent & Lundy offers an opportunity to work on multi-disciplined engineering and design project teams, focusing on mechanical physical layout drawings in a 3-D model for the nuclear power industry. The role involves challenging assignments in mechanical and structural design while providing mentorship to less experienced team members.
This position is based on a hybrid work schedule requiring in-office work 3 days per week at the Sargent & Lundy office in Peachtree Corners, GA.
At roughly $47/hr, this posting sits about 63% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA — toward the top of a $28–$40/hr middle band drawn from 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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 85 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 67 different employers. 38 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 392 other active welding openings from 246 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.
Sargent & Lundy currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (8), Mullins Mechanical (6), and Yancey Bros. Co. (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $29/hr, and Marietta at $29/hr. Atlanta is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Senior Mechanical Designer 1 - Nuclear figures were last recalculated when this page was built.