Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter Foreman is a key leader responsible for overseeing all phases of piping installation at RK Industries, a family-owned company focused on safety, quality, and craftsmanship. This role involves coordinating crews, solving layout challenges, and ensuring compliance with codes while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to project schedule and orchestrate timely project completion within budgeted costs.
  • Cooperate with project management and maintain open lines of communication regarding project budget, productivity, change orders, and customer satisfaction.
  • Practice, promote, and develop mentoring at all trade and manpower levels throughout the project.
  • Devote the majority of time to work installation and installation-related duties.
  • Assist Corporate Safety Managers as requested.
  • Act as a customer satisfaction and public relations liaison.
  • Work within the perimeters of the project budget.
  • Ensure quality craftsmanship on all mechanical system installations.
  • Comply with company policy and procedures.
  • Develop a 'Master Plan' approach for the project.
  • Execute, supervise, and maintain CPMI.
  • Schedule daily and weekly scope of work activities.
  • Manage material, tool, and equipment requisitions.
  • Maintain workforce quality and proper journeyman to apprentice ratio.
  • Ensure code compliance and conflict resolution.
  • Maintain current updated, amended drawings ready for inspection at all times.

Requirements

  • Comply with all company policies and procedures.
  • Accountable for safety and health and empowered to stop work if an unsafe condition is present.
  • RK Mechanical employees and subcontractors must implement and maintain all safety and health systems practices.
  • General Foreman Plumbing and General Foreman Lead Plumbing require a minimum of Journeyman Plumbers License.
  • Perform technical responsibilities and contribute to the development and improvement of concepts, techniques, and procedures.
  • Coordinate own tasks with a specific range of responsibilities under established procedures.
  • Requires judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
  • Supervision and guidance of crews.

Additional Information

  • Work outside, inside, and in dusty, noisy, and hazardous areas.
  • Work in high places, tight places, confined spaces, and/or other adverse locations.
  • Ability to lift, move, and/or carry 50 lbs.

How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$37/hr across 88 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 200 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 130 different employers. 42 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 466 other active welding openings from 253 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.

RK Industries currently has 2 other openings 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), EZARC (15), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (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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