Job Description

Overview

EZARC is seeking a highly skilled Ironworker to join their growing team, emphasizing safety and teamwork while providing opportunities for career progression and skill development.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret steel erection and shop drawings.
  • Create layouts on concrete, existing structures, and materials to be fabricated.
  • Shakeout steel in order of erection sequence per drawings.
  • Prepare hardware needed for materials to be erected.
  • Determine proper rigging slings and hardware according to the weight of the load.
  • Ensure that all rigging tools are safe and reliable before each use.
  • Establish effective communication with the crane operator and crew members using radio or hand signals.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment, tools, or defective material and notify Foreman.
  • Fabricate metal parts such as metal frames, columns, beams or girders, and pipe according to blueprints or revisions from Supervisor.
  • Work alongside a crew to perform the erection of structural steel members.
  • Maintain a high standard of safety culture.
  • Exhibit efficient leadership skills to perform tasks on tight deadlines.
  • Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads.
  • Attach loads to rigging to provide support or prepare them for moving.
  • Select rigging gear such as cables, nylon straps, pulleys, and winches according to the weight of the load.
  • Control movement of heavy equipment or loads through narrow openings or confined spaces.
  • Dismantle and store rigging equipment after each use.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Mark or tag material with the proper job numbers, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
  • Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
  • Preheat workpieces before welding or bending, using torches or wed burners.
  • Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts, following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
  • Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place using cranes.
  • Assemble hoisting equipment or riggings to move heavy equipment or materials.
  • Erect metal or precast concrete components for structures.

Benefits

401k
PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Referral Program
Health Savings Account
Professional Development Assistance

How this job compares in Chandler, AZ

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Chandler, AZ currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$31/hr across 17 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 Chandler, AZ

We're tracking 68 other active welding openings in Chandler, AZ right now, from 35 different employers. 15 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 482 other active welding openings from 247 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chandler, or widen the search to Arizona.

EZARC currently has 15 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 (29), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (17), and EZARC (15). 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 Tolleson at $38/hr, Scottsdale at $36/hr, and Tempe at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Chandler, AZ

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