Structural Steel Shop Foreman
Location
Verdi, NV
Wage
$70,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Verdi, NV
Wage
$70,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
We are seeking an experienced, high-level Structural Steel Shop Foreman to run our fabrication shop and support field operations. The ideal candidate is a proficient leader who knows exactly how steel projects should run from start to finish.
At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 41% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Nevada — toward the top of a $28–$35/hr middle band drawn from 20 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 95% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Verdi, NV is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Nevada as a whole we're tracking 49 other active welding openings from 31 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Nevada.
Hunter Metal currently has 1 other opening live in Nevada, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Nevada at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Las Vegas, NV (13), Chart Industries, Inc. (2), and Jensen Infrastructure (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Structural Steel Shop Foreman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.