Piping Engineer
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$102,900 – $170,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 8, 2026
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Wage
$102,900 – $170,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 8, 2026
At Jacobs, we are reinventing tomorrow by solving critical problems for thriving cities and resilient environments. We are looking for a high-energy Piping Engineer to join our Building Mechanical team, delivering solutions for industrial facilities and helping clients capitalize on emerging technologies.
At roughly $66/hr, this posting sits about 87% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA — toward the top of a $30–$39/hr middle band drawn from 20 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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.
We're tracking 56 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 37 different employers. 23 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 277 other active welding openings from 178 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.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TradeWorx (7), Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) (7), and Crash Champions (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 $25/hr. Philadelphia is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Piping Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.