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Overview

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is seeking a 1st Class Welder, a highly skilled trades professional responsible for inspecting, repairing, rehabilitating, and installing rail and track components using specialized welding and grinding equipment, ensuring safety and quality standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Utilizes appropriate welding processes to repair, rehabilitate and install various types of track components.
  • Sets up welding machines and accessories, makes necessary connections, and adjusts welding machines.
  • Inspects and maintains special trackwork for PM compliance and makes necessary repairs.
  • Performs track maintenance functions such as alignment of rail joints and tightening of loose joints.
  • Uses and maintains tools, equipment, and measuring devices for welding and grinding.
  • Cuts and drills rail to specified measurements using necessary equipment.
  • Performs repair, renewal, construction, and removal of track and special work.
  • Uses plans, drawings, sketches, and templates to layout and ensure correctness of work.
  • Prepares and completes thermite welded rail joints using approved means and methods.
  • Determines the need for On-Track protection and secures the appropriate Form 'W'.
  • Complies with all safety and security policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED required.
  • Must have a valid Driver's License with ability to obtain CDL Class B license within 30 days of hire.
  • Must satisfactorily complete written qualifications and performance tests as required.
  • Must be clean-shaven and fit-tested for the use of a tight fitting respirator.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA, whose middle half runs $28–$37/hr across 19 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 79% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 59 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 38 different employers. 32 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 283 other active welding openings from 192 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) currently has 3 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Hanwha Philly Shipyard (8), TradeWorx (7), and JB Poindexter Company (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 $36/hr and York at $27/hr. Philadelphia 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. 1st Class Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.