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Overview

We are hiring an experienced Industrial Pipe Welder / Pipefitter for industrial mechanical projects throughout Central and Eastern Pennsylvania. This position requires real experience fitting, laying out, and welding industrial piping systems in the field and/or shop environment.

Responsibilities

  • Fit, lay out, fabricate, and install industrial piping systems
  • Weld carbon steel and stainless steel pipe
  • Perform TIG/GTAW and Stick/SMAW welding
  • Work with process piping, utility piping, and sanitary piping systems
  • Read and interpret blueprints, P&IDs, and isometric drawings
  • Measure, cut, bevel, fit, and assemble pipe
  • Perform pipe layout and calculate offsets
  • Rig and position pipe, equipment, and fabricated components
  • Perform industrial fabrication, cutting, grinding, and installation work
  • Work around plant equipment, machinery, structural steel, and industrial systems
  • Assist with shutdowns, equipment installs, plant maintenance, and related mechanical work

Requirements

  • Previous industrial pipe welding and/or pipefitting experience
  • Experience welding carbon steel and stainless steel pipe
  • Proficiency with TIG and Stick welding
  • Ability to perform pipe layout, fitting, and fabrication independently
  • Ability to read blueprints, isometrics, and P&IDs
  • Experience with process piping, utility piping, sanitary piping, or plant piping strongly preferred
  • Experience with rigging and industrial mechanical work is a plus
  • Must be comfortable working in active industrial and manufacturing environments
  • Must be willing to complete a weld test, including 6G welding, when required
  • Must be dependable and able to work overtime and weekends when projects require it

Additional Information

  • Most projects are located within approximately 1.5 hours of the Palmyra shop, including the Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Allentown areas.
  • This position may require overtime, weekend work, early starts, and travel to customer facilities.
  • Work inside active industrial plants and manufacturing facilities.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Palmyra, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $23–$34/hr middle band drawn from 104 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% 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 Palmyra, PA

Palmyra, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 191 other active welding openings from 121 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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 TIG and Stick work. 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 6G — a pipe test welded on a joint fixed at a 45-degree incline. Because the torch has to travel through flat, vertical, and overhead angles in a single pass, passing 6G qualifies you for every position on pipe — which is why it is the ticket that separates pipe welders from plate welders on pay.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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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. Industrial Pipe Welder / Pipefitter figures were last recalculated when this page was built.