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Job Description

Overview

MasTec Civil is seeking a skilled Structural Welder in Mobile, AL, to fabricate and repair critical roadway, bridge, and transit projects. The company offers top-tier pay, excellent benefits, and strong long-term career growth.

Responsibilities

  • Plans details of work order procedures and gathers required tools and materials based on instructions and specifications.
  • Repairs and fabricates various items and equipment using cutting, burning, and welding techniques and equipment.
  • Monitors the welding, burning, and fitting process to ensure parts are not overheated or damaged.
  • Prepares, assembles, and tacks weld parts and surfaces to be welded.
  • Maintains, organizes, and cleans equipment and the work area.
  • Notifies supervisor when faulty equipment or defective materials are discovered.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Thorough understanding of machines and tools used in welding including designs, uses, maintenance, and repair.
  • Basic understanding of design techniques, principles, and tools necessary for the precise production of technical plans, drawings, models, and blueprints.
  • Excellent ability to read and listen to assignments given in a variety of forms.
  • Basic understanding of mathematics as related to welding assignments.
  • Completion of a formal apprenticeship or successful completion of an in-company, three-year training program required.
  • Possession of valid Welding Certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Mobile, AL

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Alabama, whose middle half runs $19–$34/hr across 38 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 47% 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 Mobile, AL

We're tracking 16 other active welding openings in Mobile, AL right now, from 6 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Alabama as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 52 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mobile, or widen the search to Alabama.

The most active employers in Alabama at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Blue Origin (9), Austal USA (9), and Staffmark (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Mobile, AL

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