Mechanical Designer 3 - Nuclear
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Posted on August 26, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Posted on August 26, 2026
This position is for a Mechanical Designer 3 in the Nuclear Power Group at Sargent & Lundy, offering the opportunity to work on mechanical design projects in a hybrid work environment. The role involves developing mechanical equipment layouts, piping designs, and collaborating with a multi-disciplined engineering team.
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 $42/hr, this posting sits about 43% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA — toward the top of a $26–$39/hr middle band drawn from 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 84% 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 Atlanta at $29/hr, Marietta at $29/hr, and Lithia Springs 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. Mechanical Designer 3 - Nuclear figures were last recalculated when this page was built.