Structural Engineer
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$104,403 – $119,317/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$104,403 – $119,317/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
STV's Buildings Division is seeking an Engineer – Structural to join their Philadelphia or Douglassville office. This role is ideal for a structural engineer with 5–10 years of experience who is ready to take on greater technical responsibility and grow within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.
At roughly $54/hr, this posting sits about 79% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA — toward the top of a $28–$35/hr middle band drawn from 17 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 94% 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 45 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 29 different employers. 16 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 315 other active welding openings from 205 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (15), Aerotek (11), and Hanwha Philly Shipyard (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr, York at $27/hr, and Lancaster at $25/hr. Philadelphia 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. Structural Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.