Assembler I
Location
Bristol, PA
Wage
$16.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
Location
Bristol, PA
Wage
$16.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
Kohler Co. is seeking an Assembler I to join their manufacturing team in Bristol, PA. The role involves assembling and packing cabinets, doors, parts, and light fixtures while ensuring quality and safety standards are met.
At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $25–$36/hr across 168 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 2% 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.
Bristol, PA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 324 other active welding openings from 214 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bristol, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Greene Tweed (9), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (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 $36/hr and York at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Assembler I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.