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Job Description

Overview

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation for a Welder position with the United States Army Engineer District, Huntington Regional Rivers Repair Fleet, Medium Capacity Fleet Unit, located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Responsibilities

  • Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications and work orders.
  • Operates forklifts on uneven conditions to unload vehicles and move materials in outside storage yards.
  • Uses gas welding torch processes such as oxyacetylene, oxyhydrogen, arc processes, gas tungsten arc, gas carbon arc and various electric resistance welding processes.
  • Makes a wide-range of welds, from simple to precision welding, including welds of dissimilar metals.
  • Works with light, heavy gauge and hardened metals, including mild steel, carbon alloy steel, stainless steel, copper on brass, brass on stainless steel, cast iron, nickel and bronze.
  • Must have good eye, hand and foot coordination to watch the clearance of the load while making necessary control changes.
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How this job compares in Pittsburgh, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $27–$37/hr middle band drawn from 96 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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.

The local market in Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh, PA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 158 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Pittsburgh, or widen the search to 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.

Similar openings near Pittsburgh, PA

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