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Overview

The Electronic Technician position offers a direct hire opportunity with competitive pay and full benefits, focusing on testing switchgear and electrical components. Candidates with hands-on electrical experience, including military veterans and those with HVAC backgrounds, are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

  • Test switchgear, breakers, relays, panelboards, and transfer switches before shipment.
  • Perform primary and secondary injection on breakers.
  • Conduct Megger and hipot testing, plus contact resistance, timing, and trip tests.
  • Test relays for correct function and coordination.
  • Verify every unit against the one-line and the project spec.
  • Document results and flag anomalies to engineering.
  • Upload a settings file for PLC work.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in LV/MV switchgear testing, hipot testing, or Megger insulation testing.
  • Journeyman or apprentice electricians, HVAC technicians, or military veterans with hands-on electrical experience are also eligible.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • First shift.
  • Overtime eligible at 1.5x rate.
  • Company supplies boots, glasses, and gloves.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 17% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ — toward the top of a $25–$37/hr middle band drawn from 87 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 66% 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.

The local market in Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 202 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 130 different employers. 48 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 471 other active welding openings from 255 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.

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. Phoenix is among them.

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