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Job Description

Overview

Murphy's Family Staffing is seeking experienced Structural Steel Fabricators and Ironworkers for a direct-hire, permanent position in Walnut Bottom, PA. The role involves fabricating, assembling, and installing structural steel components with a pay range of $25–$35 per hour based on experience.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate structural steel beams, columns, frames, RTU supports, and other structural components.
  • Read and interpret structural blueprints, fabrication drawings, and shop drawings.
  • Measure, cut, drill, weld, fit, and assemble steel components to specifications.
  • Perform structural steel erection and installation at construction job sites.
  • Assist with rigging, positioning, aligning, and securing steel components.
  • Operate fabrication equipment, cranes, scissor lifts, forklifts, and other machinery as qualified and authorized.
  • Perform quality inspections to ensure accurate fabrication and installation.
  • Work in both shop and field environments on commercial, industrial, and other construction projects.
  • Follow OSHA and company safety procedures.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on structural steel fabrication and/or erection experience preferred.
  • Experience fabricating or erecting structural steel beams, columns, frames, supports, or similar components.
  • Ability to read and interpret structural shop drawings and blueprints.
  • Experience using fabrication equipment, welding machines, cutting equipment, and hand/power tools.
  • Knowledge of structural steel construction, layout, measuring, and assembly.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Must be at least 18 years old.
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Ability to complete required pre-employment physical and drug screening.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Additional Information

  • Full-time position with a work schedule of Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM–3:00 PM.
  • Candidates must be willing to commute daily to the shop and live within a reasonable commute (up to about 45 minutes).

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
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How this job compares in Walnut Bottom, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 104 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 58% 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 Walnut Bottom, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Walnut Bottom, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 191 other active welding openings from 121 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

Murphy's Family Staffing currently has 3 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TradeWorx (7), JB Poindexter Company (6), and Hanwha Philly Shipyard (5). 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 $34/hr, York at $27/hr, and New Kensington at $22/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

See all structural welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Structural Steel Fabricator / Ironworker figures were last recalculated when this page was built.