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Overview

The Highway & Construction Laborer position at the Department of Transportation involves maintaining safe and efficient transportation systems. This role offers a $4,000 hiring incentive and requires various levels of experience in highway operations.

Responsibilities

  • Operate motorized vehicles and equipment for highway maintenance.
  • Perform pavement care and preservation tasks.
  • Conduct landscape care and preservation.
  • Restore and repair roadside shoulders.
  • Handle signing and striping of roadways.
  • Deliver equipment and materials as needed.
  • Ensure environmental compliance.
  • Care for vehicles and equipment.

Requirements

  • Highway Operations Worker: 6 months of related experience preferred.
  • Highway Operations Tech 1: 1 year of job-related experience required.
  • Highway Operations Tech 2: 2 years of job-related experience required.
  • Highway Operations Tech 3: 3 years of job-related experience required.
  • Arizona CDL (Class 'A') permit within 90 days of hire and license within 6 months for Highway Operations Worker.
  • Arizona Class 'A' CDL with tanker endorsement required for Highway Operations Tech 1-3.
  • Registration with the FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse is required.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Retirement

Additional Information

  • Position located at Tempe Maintenance, 2540 W. Broadway, Tempe, AZ 85282.
  • Respond to emergency call outs 24/7.
  • Must be able to respond to the Maintenance yard within 30 minutes.
  • May encounter extremes of cold and heat, rugged terrain, and high-speed traffic conditions.
  • Position requires lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Retirement
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How this job compares in Tempe, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 29% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Arizona, where the middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 188 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% 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 Tempe, AZ

We're tracking 31 other active welding openings in Tempe, AZ right now, from 21 different employers. 12 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 471 other active welding openings from 256 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tempe, or widen the search to Arizona.

State of Arizona Enterprise Technology (ASET) 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 (17), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (16), and EZARC (15). 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, Phoenix at $30/hr, and Goodyear at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Highway & Construction Laborer ($4,000 Hiring Incentive) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.