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Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Fitter and Welder position involves welding and fitting skills, requiring adherence to safety rules and the ability to interpret blueprints.

Responsibilities

  • Competent in welding and fitting skills for various certifications.
  • Fit up all types of rigid frame columns, rafters, and beam canopies according to specifications.
  • Understand safety rules and precautions necessary for a manufacturing environment.
  • Achieve and maintain AWS and CWB certifications.
  • Check work assignments and interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Measure, mark, count, and locate components in an assembly.
  • Position sub-assemblies using clamping devices and material handling equipment.
  • Use tools and measuring devices to join parts according to blueprints.
  • Weld components in place using various welding techniques.
  • Install metal tags to identify parts and use personal identification stamp.
  • Maintain correct numerical and alphabetical sequences.
  • Practice continuous improvement in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects or duties by Team Leader.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent (GED).
  • Minimum of one year experience welding and fitting in a production environment or valid welding certification.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain CWB and AWS welding certification.
  • Experience with forklift and/or overhead crane operation is a plus.
  • Ability to lift up to 75 pounds continually above shoulder height and below the waist.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Site Address: 7301 Fairview Street, Houston, TX 77041.
  • Position has potential for overtime with shifts of 8, 10, or 12 hours.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$31/hr across 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 307 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 181 different employers. 92 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,233 other active welding openings from 689 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 4 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 Zachry Group (21), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), and Optimized Process Designs LLC (13). 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 $82/hr, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fitter and Welder 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.