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Overview

The Welder position involves improving welding productivity, quality, and safety while adapting to a changing work environment. The role requires effective communication and the ability to manage safety and training programs for department employees.

Responsibilities

  • Improve welding productivity, quality, and safety.
  • Adapt to a changing work environment and manage competing demands.
  • Administer safety and training programs for all department employees.
  • Communicate information clearly and directly to co-workers and supervisors.
  • Identify, organize, estimate, and recognize differences or similarities with attention to detail.
  • Stand and work in adverse conditions for a minimum of 8 hours.
  • Use simple measuring instruments like tape measures and calipers.
  • Perform extensive walking, bending, stooping, and moderate to heavy lifting.
  • Manually operate multiple levers and knobs associated with machines or equipment.

Requirements

  • Ability to adapt to a changing work environment.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Physical ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, and lift.
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How this job compares in Beaumont, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$35/hr across 448 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 Beaumont, TX

We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Beaumont, TX right now, from 7 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,276 other active welding openings from 697 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Beaumont, or widen the search to Texas.

NOV currently has 9 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (21), and Austin Industries (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Beaumont, TX

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