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Overview

The Pipefitter Foreperson is responsible for planning, laying out, and performing various pipe fitting and fabrication tasks while ensuring compliance with specifications and industry standards. The role emphasizes teaching others, maintaining quality work, and fostering positive relationships within the crew at Sundt, a 100% employee-owned contractor focused on long-term prosperity for clients and employee-owners.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, lay-out and perform all types of pipe fitting and fabrication work.
  • Continually seek opportunities to share knowledge and teach others.
  • Eliminate waste such as waiting, rework, transporting, material storage and time.
  • Inspect subordinates' work for accuracy and compliance with plans and specifications.
  • Look for opportunities for improvement in all tasks and methods.
  • Maintain positive working relationships with all crew members.
  • Produce high quality work safely and productively.
  • Provide feedback to ensure availability of materials, tools, equipment and information.

Requirements

  • Must be able to read and understand drawings, specifications, safety and quality standards.
  • Must have a minimum of three to six plus years of experience in the industrial/commercial construction industry.
  • Possess effective verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required.
  • Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.
  • Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical work in varying temperatures and outside conditions.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $24–$39/hr across 76 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 198 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 114 different employers. 49 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 467 other active welding openings from 221 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.

Sundt Construction currently has 28 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (28), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (19), and EZARC (18). 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 Goodyear at $51/hr, Tolleson at $38/hr, and Tempe at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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