Job Description

Overview

The Steel Fabrication Foreman position at an Arizona Top Workplace involves managing shop operations, coordinating with staff and clients, and ensuring efficient work processes in structural steel fabrication. The company values integrity and character, seeking a proactive individual to join their trusted team.

Responsibilities

  • Assist and perform duties of all shop operations.
  • Provide information and direction to staff.
  • Report to the Chief Operating Officer.
  • Manage specialized work efficiently.
  • Layout, fit-up, and weld as per approved shop drawings.
  • Operate steel fabrication machinery.
  • Delegate tasks and ensure completion of work by shop staff.
  • Assist with unloading and receiving steel and supplies.
  • Manage steel inventory and organize the shop storage room.

Requirements

  • Structural steel fabrication experience.
  • Ability to read steel shop drawings.
  • Experience with structural steel layout.

How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ, whose middle half runs $23–$39/hr across 94 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 53% 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 Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 217 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 124 different employers. 74 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 513 other active welding openings from 246 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 (31), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (22), and EZARC (15). 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.

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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. Steel Fabrication Foreman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.