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Overview

The Senior Welder position at WM involves performing preventive maintenance inspections, troubleshooting, and repairing compactors and containers. WM is committed to creating opportunities for its employees and fostering a supportive work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Performs preventive maintenance inspections, diagnoses and repairs compactors, containers, and carts.
  • Performs moderately complex welding processes such as arc welding, gas welding, aluminum welding, brazing, plastic welding, and soft soldering on a variety of materials.
  • Completes required paperwork utilizing fleet maintenance software program associated with repairing compactors and containers.
  • Conducts safety checks on compactors and containers.
  • Performs service calls for compactor repairs and emergency breakdowns.
  • Performs related work such as flame cutting, bending, forming, beveling, and notching of metal and plastic parts.
  • Performs standard layouts and set-ups of dimensions and tolerances.
  • Estimates time and material costs on repairs and requisitions new parts.
  • Inspects the quality of outside/supplier repairs and or rebuilds.
  • Performs layout operations, develops fixtures for one-of-a-kind units, and selects optimum welding process.
  • Provides assistance, guidance and direction to lower level maintenance personnel.
  • In the absence of supervision may provide container maintenance supervisory duties.
  • Maintains a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.

Requirements

  • 4 years of relevant work experience.
  • Valid driver’s license upon hire.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Pay range is $20 - $27 DOE.
  • Shift is Monday-Friday, 5am - 1:30pm.
  • Boot allowance of $250.
  • Preferred candidates with CDL.
  • This role operates in both inside gas plant conditions and outside conditions that include inclement weather.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Tucson, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Arizona, where the middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 174 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% 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 Tucson, AZ

Tucson, AZ currently has 9 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 463 other active welding openings from 233 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Tucson, or widen the search to Arizona.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (26), EZARC (21), 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 Goodyear at $39/hr, Phoenix at $32/hr, and Mesa at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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