Mechanical Designer- Piping
Location
Hammond, IN
Wage
$90,000 – $105,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Hammond, IN
Wage
$90,000 – $105,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
The Mechanical Designer is responsible for heavy industrial piping design and plant layout, translating field sketches into 3D CAD/Solidworks construction documents, managing schedules, and coordinating with project managers and engineers to meet project budgets.
At roughly $47/hr, this posting sits about 62% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana — toward the top of a $23–$31/hr middle band drawn from 95 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 99% 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.
Hammond, IN currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 172 other active welding openings from 110 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Hammond, or widen the search to Indiana.
The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are NCW (36), Aerotek (6), and SMS group (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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- Piping figures were last recalculated when this page was built.