Job Description

Overview

North Tulsa company seeking a maintenance tech to perform work and repair on equipment utilizing welding techniques such as patching holes and welding seams.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure operation of machinery and equipment by completing maintenance requirements on production, packaging, processing equipment and utility systems.
  • Read, analyze and interpret technical procedures, service manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
  • Follow all required work safe practices including lock-out tag-out requirements and wearing of all required PPE in designated areas.
  • Ability to interpret blueprints, specifications and other standards.
  • Knowledge of power/hand tools.
  • Must be able to lift 25-50 pounds regularly.

Additional Information

  • Location: Tulsa, OK
  • Shift: 5a-1p
  • Pay Rate: $18-$19.00 an hour

How this job compares in Tulsa, OK

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 34% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs in Tulsa, OK, where the middle half runs $26–$32/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Tulsa, OK

We're tracking 34 other active welding openings in Tulsa, OK right now, from 23 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 115 other active welding openings from 69 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tulsa, or widen the search to Oklahoma.

Encore Pro Staffing currently has 2 other openings live in Oklahoma, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Alfa Laval (8), Hayden Industrial (5), and Chart Industries, Inc. (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Catoosa at $29/hr, Tulsa at $28/hr, and Claremore at $25/hr. Tulsa 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. Repair tech/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.