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Overview

The Fabrication Fabricator A position requires an experienced industrial pipe fitter fabricator with strong leadership and communication skills. The role involves reading blueprints, fabricating and installing pipes, and ensuring quality in industrial construction projects.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints and specifications to determine the scope of work.
  • Identify all tools required for tasks.
  • Identify safety risks and the precautions required to eliminate those risks.
  • Prepare, fabricate, install, and fit pipe to specifications.
  • Install valves, hangars, supports, and flanges inside piping systems according to plans.
  • Perform tests to ensure the quality of the pipe and piping systems.
  • Hoist loads using slings, chains, shackles, hooks, cables, and other rigging equipment.

Requirements

  • Must have 4+ years working as an Industrial Pipe Fitter Fabricator.
  • Must be able to read prints and illustrate thorough knowledge of pipe fitting procedures and skills.
  • Must have good leadership and communication skills.
  • Must have experience on an industrial construction project.
  • Demonstrated industrial construction/maintenance history experience.
  • Ability to read prints and construction drawings.
  • Ability to read and interpret technical manuals and manufacturers manuals and instructions.
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How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Pasadena, TX currently run a median of $38/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $35–$40/hr across 9 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 Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 42 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 23 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,281 other active welding openings from 642 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

Zachry Group currently has 21 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 Austin Industries (23), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (22), and Zachry Group (21). 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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Pasadena at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. Pasadena is among them.

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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. Fabrication Fabricator A figures were last recalculated when this page was built.