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Overview

Kinsley Steel has been delivering unmatched quality steel since 1985, specializing in structural steel design, engineering, detailing, fabrication, erection, and retrofit. The Structural Steel Ironworker Foreman provides site leadership, overseeing manpower, equipment planning, safety measures, and productivity to meet project schedules.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure safety precautions are followed
  • Complete jobs on time and within budget
  • Hold a documented site safety meeting on a weekly basis
  • Complete a 3-week look-a-head schedule on a weekly basis
  • Attend all on-site project meetings (safety, quality, scheduling, production, etc.)
  • Issue corrective action notices as required, to enforce company and/or project guidelines/policies
  • Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required

Requirements

  • Ability to, at minimum, be able to speak and understand English in oral and written form
  • Knowledge of proper rigging and signaling
  • Knowledge of applicable and proper use for transit, laser level, torpedo, torque guns, welders, gas supplied equipment, rigging and components
  • Knowledge of AISC
  • Establish and maintain effective and professional working relationships
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How this job compares in Jenkintown, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $28/hr median for structural welder jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $28–$35/hr middle band drawn from 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Jenkintown, PA

Jenkintown, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 277 other active welding openings from 180 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Phillips Tank & Structure (7), 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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