Job Description

Overview

The Pipelayer position in Waddell, AZ involves assisting skilled craft workers and performing duties as directed by project supervision. Sundt is a 100% employee-owned contractor focused on building long-term prosperity for clients and employee-owners.

Responsibilities

  • Assist skilled craft workers in performing their assigned duties.
  • Work in other crafts at levels appropriate to training and skills as requested.
  • Take direction from a higher skilled worker or foreman.
  • Utilize effective math skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
  • Eliminate waste such as waiting, rework, transporting, material storage, and time.
  • Ask a supervisor about any work or safety issues before continuing.
  • Learn and understand all safety hazards related to the work.
  • Safely and effectively use or operate work-related tools and equipment.
  • 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 all materials, tools, and information are available.

Requirements

  • NCCER Core Curriculum and/or a High School diploma or equivalent is preferred.
  • One year experience (level I), two years' experience (level II), and three plus years' experience in the industrial/commercial construction industry is preferred.
  • Possess effective verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required.
  • Must 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

How this job compares in Waddell, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Arizona currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$39/hr across 176 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 Waddell, AZ

Waddell, AZ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 467 other active welding openings from 221 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across 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.

Similar openings near Waddell, AZ

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipelayer - Waddell, AZ figures were last recalculated when this page was built.