Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Tempe, AZ)

Ausitn Industrial; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial in Tempe, AZ, seeks an experienced welder for on-site maintenance and fabrication across heavy industrial sectors. The role involves welding, cutting, and assembling metal parts per layout, blueprints, and work orders.

Candidates must have 4 years journeyman-level welding experience, SMAW and GTAW certifications, a valid driver's license, and a high school diploma or GED. This full-time, 1st shift position requires safe work practices and attention to quality.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; vocational training in welding preferred.
• 4 years journeyman-level welding experience required.
• Certifications: SMAW and GTAW; valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Weld or tack weld pieces using spot, electric, or gas welding equipment.
• Join pipes to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and operate valves.
• Preheat and prepare pieces with torch; ensure proper heat and fit.
• Check dimensions with straightedge or templates to meet specs.
• Assist crane operator by signaling and coordinating lifts.
• Operate cutting equipment (flame/plasma) to disassemble or trim metal.

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

SMAW

GTAW

Job description

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: COMBI034254

• Posted : September 28, 2026


• Full-Time


• On-site

Locations

Showing 1 location

Tempe, AZ, USA

Description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee‑owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost‑efficiency.

This person must be able to join metal parts, such as pipe or metal plates as specified by layout, blueprints, work orders, welding procedures or oral instructionsthrough the application of heat or electric arc‑welding equipment. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Uses spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.


• Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.


• Reaching expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.


• Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.


• Fillsholes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.


• Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.


• Climbsup ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.


• Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.


• Uses thermal‑cutting equipment such as flame‑cutting torch or plasma‑arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.


• Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.


• In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.


• Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.


• Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.


• Other duties as assigned.


• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position

Certifications/ Licenses: A Weld Test and a Valid Driver’s License.

Experience: – 4 years of Journeyman‑level experience.

Physical Demands

• Physically intensive role, requiring lifting up to >50 lbs, climbing ladders, and working in confined or wet spaces.


• Able to stand and/or walk for 10+ hrs daily, able to climb stairs and ladders


• May perform repetitive hand and wrist motions and may sometimes have to twist and bend body


• Vision – May be exposed to yellow lights, blinking lights


• Potential to work with materials which contain hazardous chemicals

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Employees assigned to a 1 st Shift schedule work a 9‑hour shifts, 5 days a week, Monday‑Friday. The 1 st Shift position begins at 7:00am and ends at 4:00pm each scheduled day.

Travel

No overnight travel is expected for this position. Some occasional local day travel may be necessary.

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED required; associate degree or vocational training in water treatment, mechanical systems, or industrial maintenance preferred.

Experience

• Mechanical or Industrial Maintenance


• Experience in UPW or industrial wastewater treatment operations.


• Familiarity with handling and replacing filtration membranes, resins, and biological components.


• Experience in semiconductor, cleanroom or high‑purity environments preferred.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

None required for this position.

Computer – Based Work & Technical Proficiency

- The role involves extensive use of computers for data entry, documentation, analysis, and internal communication.

Candidates must be comfortable and proficient in the full suite of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, etc.) and able to learn new office applications quickly.

- Familiarity with enterprise CMMS (Computer‑Aided Maintenance Management System) software and Confluence is required for daily task management, issue tracking, and collaboration.

Licenses & Certifications

• 1-1-A-3 SMAW


• 8-8-B-1 GTAW


• 1-1-BA-2 GTAW/SMAW


• 23-23-B GTAW


• Valid Driver's License

Equal Opportunity Employer
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