Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

Looking for a Shop Manager to organize shop jobs and handle various situations in a custom wrought iron railing shop specializing in ADA rails and metal fabrication. Applicants must have welding and fabricating experience, be mechanically inclined, and possess a valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

  • Organize shop jobs and measure jobs for building.
  • Read tape measures and shop prints.
  • Handle last minute orders and unexpected situations.
  • Assign work to crew members.
  • Build, paint, and install railings.
  • Perform onsite repairs and miscellaneous metal work.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 4 years of welding or fabricating experience.
  • Ability to build railings.
  • Must be people friendly and able to work well with others.
  • Must pass a weld test.
  • Valid driver's license required.

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is Monday-Friday, closed on weekends.
  • Salary based on experience.
  • Apply online or call to stop in as hours vary.
  • Mail a resume to: PO Box 394, Parkerford PA 19457.
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Parker Ford, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 26% below the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $20–$33/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Parker Ford, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Parker Ford, 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 welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Similar openings near Parker Ford, PA

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