Sheet Metal Production Worker

Location

Finleyville, PA

Wage

$17.38 – $23.57/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on November 6, 2026

Job Description

Overview

W. G. Tomko is a leading regional mechanical contractor looking to fill several Sheet Metal Production Worker positions. The role offers excellent benefits through the union and competitive salaries based on experience, with training available for the right candidates.

Responsibilities

  • Forming, cutting and bending of metal to form fabricated units correctly.
  • Welding and insulating assemblies safely and efficiently.
  • Performing additional production and warehouse duties as required in the production process.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of manufacturing, fabrication and general shop processes.
  • Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Must be able to MIG weld.
  • Experience with sheet metal shearing is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Press Brake is a plus.
  • Forklift experience is a plus.
  • Ability to read blueprints and tape measure.

Additional Information

  • This is a full-time position.
  • Forty hours per week/10 hours per day/Monday through Friday, 6:30am to 4:00pm.
  • Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
  • This position works in a typical warehouse environment with moderate exposure to unusual elements.

How this job compares in Finleyville, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 32% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $27–$35/hr across 94 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Finleyville, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Finleyville, 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 249 other active welding openings from 156 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). 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 $30/hr and York at $25/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 manufacturing 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. Sheet Metal Production Worker figures were last recalculated when this page was built.