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Overview

Become a Welder with the Department of Transportation and help support safe and reliable travel across Montgomery County. This role will allow you to use your technical skills to repair and strengthen the equipment and structures that keep roads open and functioning.

Responsibilities

  • Perform welding, brazing, soldering, and coating on ferrous and non-ferrous materials for maintenance and repair.
  • Preheat, clean, cut, and fit metals before welding and fabrication.
  • Repair truck bodies, engine parts, trailers, and machinery used in roadway maintenance.
  • Fix plow frames, blades, spreaders, and other winter maintenance equipment.
  • Create new or replacement parts using oxy acetylene, arc, and similar welding equipment.
  • Weld and cut specialized metals such as stainless steel and aluminum.

Requirements

  • Three years of experience in the operation and use of welding equipment, materials, and related shop equipment.
  • Completion of a three-year, high school Vo-Tech training program in welding and eighteen months of experience.
  • Completion of an approved welder apprentice program.
  • A welding certificate D1.1 from the American Welding Society.
  • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
  • Possession of an active Pennsylvania Class C Driver's License.

Additional Information

  • Full-time employment.
  • Work hours are 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
  • You will not have the option to telework in this position.
  • Selected candidates who are new to employment with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will begin employment at the starting annual salary of $41,506 (before taxes).
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How this job compares in Montgomery County, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 31% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $25–$35/hr across 147 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Montgomery County, PA

Montgomery County, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 312 other active welding openings from 189 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania currently has 5 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8), and Phillips Tank & Structure (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $31/hr, Braddock at $31/hr, and York at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • AWS D1.1 — the American Welding Society's Structural Welding Code for steel. It governs almost all building and structural steel work in the US, so a D1.1 qualification is the baseline credential for construction and ironworking.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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