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Job Description

Overview

Austin Industrial provides self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to industrial companies across the U.S. The Millwright role involves diagnosing mechanical failures and repairing industrial mechanical equipment in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoots, repairs, and installs industrial mechanical equipment.
  • Replaces defective parts of machines or adjusts clearances and alignment of moving parts.
  • Tests, repairs, or installs mechanical units such as water pumps, fuel pumps, governors, distributors, and carburetors.
  • Replaces bearings, chains, sprockets, and other machine parts.
  • Rebuilds pumps, cylinders, and various mechanical equipment as necessary.
  • Aligns machines and equipment using hoists, jacks, hand tools, and measuring instruments.
  • Fabrics repair parts if necessary.
  • Installs and maintains complex machinery, industrial test equipment, and compressed air systems.
  • Works while wearing personal protective equipment.

Requirements

  • No minimum education requirements.
  • 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
  • Must pass drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
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How this job compares in Tempe, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Tempe, AZ currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$75/hr across 10 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Tempe, AZ

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Tempe, AZ right now, from 23 different employers. 14 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 501 other active welding openings from 238 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tempe, or widen the search to Arizona.

Austin Industries currently has 1 other opening 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 (33), EZARC (22), and Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (21). 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 Tolleson at $38/hr, Tempe at $32/hr, and Phoenix at $30/hr. Tempe is among them.

Similar openings near Tempe, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Millwright (Tempe, AZ) - Austin Industrial figures were last recalculated when this page was built.