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Job Description

Overview

This is a great opportunity for veterans with mechanical, electrical, or troubleshooting experience to transition into the data center and critical infrastructure industry. The role involves traveling across the country while installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting equipment that keeps data centers running 24/7.

Responsibilities

  • Install, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial controls and electrical systems.
  • Work on motors, pumps, and compressors.
  • Handle mechanical and hydraulic systems.
  • Perform preventive maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Conduct equipment installation and repairs at data centers.

Requirements

  • Veteran status with experience in mechanical, electrical, or troubleshooting roles.
  • Experience with electrical systems, mechanical equipment, HVAC, generators, hydraulics, vehicles, aircraft, or industrial equipment.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Travel approximately 3 weeks per month with all travel expenses covered.
  • Based out of Phoenix, AZ, open to candidates within a reasonable distance of an airport in AZ.
  • Full benefits and tuition assistance available.

Benefits

401k
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. 47 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.

Similar openings near Phoenix, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.