Assembler
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Wage
$20 – $21/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Wage
$20 – $21/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 2, 2026
An Insight Global customer is seeking to hire Assemblers for a new project involving the assembly of structural metal struts, frames, and supports for large industrial projects. The role requires a safety-first mindset and involves reading design drawings and operating mechanical assembly equipment.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 38% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ, where the middle half runs $26–$38/hr across 82 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.
We're tracking 214 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 140 different employers. 71 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 Phoenix, or widen the search to Arizona.
Insight Global currently has 1 other opening 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 $33/hr. Phoenix 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. Assembler figures were last recalculated when this page was built.