Wastewater Treatment Plant Mechanic
Location
Alabaster, AL
Wage
$23.2 – $32.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
Alabaster, AL
Wage
$23.2 – $32.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
The City of Alabaster is seeking a skilled and dependable Wastewater Treatment Plant Mechanic to join their Environmental Services team. This position involves performing preventive maintenance and repairs on wastewater treatment machinery and equipment to ensure safe and efficient operations.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama — toward the top of a $20–$32/hr middle band drawn from 60 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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.
Alabaster, AL currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 136 other active welding openings from 88 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Alabaster, or widen the search to Alabama.
The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (18), Austal USA (8), and Staffmark (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Alabama, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Mobile at $40/hr and Birmingham at $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Wastewater Treatment Plant Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.