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Overview

All Things Metal Industries is a family-owned company recognized as one of Arizona’s Best Places to Work, focusing on building steel and fostering a supportive work culture. The Steel Framer role involves assembling steel plenums for industrial and data center projects, requiring hands-on experience and offering long-term growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Assemble steel plenums and prepare materials for fabrication and shipping
  • Operate power tools including saws, drills, grinders, and nail guns safely and efficiently
  • Read tape measures accurately and mark steel for cuts, drilling, and assembly
  • Perform grinding and cleaning of metal surfaces to meet quality standards
  • Load, stack, move, and organize steel materials and tools throughout the work area
  • Follow rigging procedures, hand signals, and crane safety protocols when applicable
  • Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment

Requirements

  • Previous ironworking, steel fabrication, or similar hands-on construction/manufacturing experience
  • Ability to read a tape measure accurately to 1/16"
  • Experience using power tools in a production or construction setting
  • Ability to lift 50+ lbs and stand for extended periods
  • Comfortable working outdoors and at heights when needed
  • Professional working proficiency in English
  • Must be able to pass a background check and drug screen (including marijuana)

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Location: West Surprise, AZ
  • Schedule: Full Time
  • Monday-Thursday | 5 am - 5 pm
  • Fridays | 5 am - 3 pm
  • Occasional Saturdays to meet deadlines
  • Consistent weekly schedule
  • Overtime available based on workload
  • Long-term, steady work — not seasonal or project-based

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 33% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Arizona, where the middle half runs $25–$37/hr across 198 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 7% 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 Surprise, AZ

Surprise, AZ currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 509 other active welding openings from 258 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Surprise, or widen the search to Arizona.

All Things Metal Industries currently has 6 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (29), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (20), and EZARC (16). 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 Tempe at $32/hr, Phoenix at $30/hr, and Surprise at $30/hr. Surprise is among them.

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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. Steel Framer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.