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Job Description

Overview

The Assembly Operator assembles flexible and semi-rigid RF cables to engineering specifications, soldering and welding connectors according to customer requirements. Times Microwave Manufacturing offers a clean and quiet environment for assembling high-quality RF cable and assemblies for military, aerospace, and space applications.

Responsibilities

  • Reads and interprets engineering documents
  • Follows work instructions to produce flexible and semi-rigid cables per customer requirements
  • Works with Engineers to problem solve production issues
  • Preps cables to prepare for assembly
  • Solders or welds connectors to cables
  • Measures and bends specialty cables to specific dimensions
  • Completes required documentation

Requirements

  • High School Diploma, GED or equivalent experience
  • 1-2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience manufacturing cable or cable assemblies, preferred
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and work instructions
  • Ability to read micrometers and calipers
  • Ability to read, speak and understand English
  • Welding or soldering experience, preferred
  • Ability to perform basic math functions (add, subtract, multiply and divide), including working with fractions and decimals
  • Ability to work effectively with small hand tools and microscopes

Additional Information

  • Location: Mesa, AZ
  • Department: 0625
  • Posted: 8/28/2026
  • Shift: 1
  • FLSA: Hourly
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How this job compares in Mesa, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 28% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Mesa, AZ, where the middle half runs $25–$33/hr across 22 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% 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 56 other active welding openings in Mesa, AZ right now, from 40 different employers. 26 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 488 other active welding openings from 277 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.

Times Microwave Systems currently has 3 other openings 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 Sundt Construction (14), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (14), and GTI Fabrication (11). 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 Phoenix at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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