Structural Designer 3 - Nuclear Power
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Wage
$68,325 – $104,385/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
The Structural Designer 3 - Nuclear Power position at Sargent & Lundy offers a hybrid work schedule and involves working with multi-disciplined engineering teams to develop structural physical layout drawings in a 3-D model, focusing on structural supports and foundations.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 38% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ — toward the top of a $24–$37/hr middle band drawn from 89 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 84% 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.
We're tracking 207 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 134 different employers. 58 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 491 other active welding openings from 267 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 (20), EZARC (19), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (14). 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, Mesa at $33/hr, and Phoenix at $30/hr. Phoenix is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Structural Designer 3 - Nuclear Power figures were last recalculated when this page was built.