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Overview

Fairmount Automation is hiring Control Panel Wirers/Assemblers at two levels to build critical control panels for U.S. Navy ships. The company has been supplying essential control systems for 30 years and offers opportunities for growth and training in a hands-on electrical environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build and wire control panels and enclosures from schematics, wiring diagrams, and assembly drawings.
  • Lay out and mount components such as PLCs, relays, breakers, contactors, terminal blocks, and power supplies.
  • Cut, strip, crimp, solder, route, bundle, and label wire to military and customer standards.
  • Check work with meters and continuity tests, and assist in troubleshooting during panel tests.
  • Handle ESD-sensitive electronics correctly and follow documented work instructions.
  • Flag problems early and collaborate with engineering to resolve them.
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area; lift up to 30 lb.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required for defense work.
  • Level II requires about 2+ years of experience building or wiring industrial control panels or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Ability to read schematics and wiring diagrams and build from them with little supervision for Level II.
  • Experience with meters and continuity or functional testing for Level II.
  • Level I values experience such as electrician's helper, wire harness assembly, or military electrical roles.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Day shift, Monday–Friday, 40 hours/week.
  • Overtime available at 1.5X base pay.
  • Paid training toward IPC soldering and wire-harness certifications.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Conshohocken, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $24–$33/hr across 146 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 Conshohocken, PA

Conshohocken, PA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 286 other active welding openings from 186 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Conshohocken, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Phillips Tank & Structure (8), Greene Tweed (7), and TradeWorx (6). 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 $35/hr and York at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Fairmount Automation – Control Panel Wirer / Assembler (Level I & II) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.