Job Description

Overview

A Phoenix based high tech manufacturing company is hiring experienced TIG Pipe Welders. The ideal candidate would have experience TIG and or laser welding sheet metal and or pipe.

Responsibilities

  • Read prints and execute plans
  • Use a tape measure
  • Be mechanically inclined
  • Communicate with designers and managers
  • Keep an organized work space
  • Work well with other internal departments

Requirements

  • Consistent attendance required
  • Valid driver’s license required
  • Pass a pre-employment drug test, everify and background check
  • Some travel required

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 1-week paid time off accrued 1st year
  • 2-weeks paid time off after 2nd year
  • 6am - 2:30pm Monday- Friday
  • Overtime when required
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs in Phoenix, AZ — toward the top of a $21–$30/hr middle band drawn from 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% 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.

The local market in Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 166 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 90 different employers. 11 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 394 other active welding openings from 180 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Phoenix, or widen the search to Arizona.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (29), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (22), 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 Tolleson at $38/hr, Tempe at $32/hr, and Phoenix at $29/hr. Phoenix is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. Sheet Metal TIG and/or Laser Welder/Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.