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Job Description

Overview

RK Mechanical is hiring Field Welders to help build mechanical piping systems for commercial and industrial projects. The company is a second-generation, family-owned business that values craftsmanship and safety in the workplace.

Responsibilities

  • Weld pipe using SMAW (stick), GTAW (TIG), and GMAW (MIG) as qualified and required by the project.
  • Produce complete, sound welds that meet quality standards and have a clean finish.
  • Support mechanical system installations and identify work that may fall short of plans, specifications, or code requirements.
  • Plan daily and weekly work, coordinate with the crew, and request the materials, tools, and equipment needed to keep work moving.
  • Meet production goals while maintaining safe, high-quality workmanship.
  • Maintain the personal hand tools needed for your assigned work.

Requirements

  • Field welding experience and knowledge of pipefitting practices, materials, and tools.
  • The ability to follow established procedures, solve problems, and communicate when something needs attention.
  • A commitment to safety, quality, and helping your crew succeed.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This role may involve working indoors or outdoors, in varied weather, at heights or in confined spaces.
  • It requires climbing, balancing, squatting, kneeling, and crouching, as well as occasional lifting and carrying of 51–75 pounds.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Denver, CO

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 26% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs in Denver, CO — toward the top of a $24–$44/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% 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.

The local market in Denver, CO

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Denver, CO right now, from 5 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 66 other active welding openings from 38 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Denver, or widen the search to Colorado.

RK Industries currently has 7 other openings live in Colorado, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (8), RK Industries (7), and Honeywell Technologies (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pueblo at $38/hr, Louisville at $35/hr, and denver at $34/hr. Denver is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.