Job Description

Overview

The HEM (Industrial Maintenance Mechanic/Millwright is responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining machinery and production equipment throughout the plant, including hydraulic and pneumatic systems, engines, motors, and conveyor systems.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains machinery and production equipment.
  • Observes mechanical devices and equipment in operation to determine proper condition.
  • Demonstrates proficiency in start-up and shutdown of press systems.
  • Understands press and critical equipment operation and troubleshooting.
  • Uses precision measurement equipment as defined in the Training Center.
  • Performs structural welding as required.
  • Uses oxygen/acetylene torch for cutting and burning materials.
  • Understands and troubleshoots basic hydraulic systems using schematics.
  • Reads blueprints to fabricate, assemble, and troubleshoot mechanical equipment.
  • Applies rigging techniques and procedures.
  • Uses mechanical tools and applies acceptable mechanical principles.
  • Repairs or replaces defective parts, lubricates, and cleans equipment.
  • Understands high pressure equipment and Lockout Tagout procedures.
  • Performs preventive or predictive maintenance and inspections.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of company and department work and safety procedures.
  • Meets physical demands of the job.
  • Performs other maintenance and operational duties as directed.

Requirements

  • Basic math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Ability to read and perform tasks using written instructions.
  • Ability to read blueprints for fabrication and installation.
  • Basic mechanical skills and general knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics.
  • Ability to read and learn new tasks.
  • Must pass a written skills assessment for hydraulic and millwright knowledge.
  • Must pass a practical exam for maintenance skills.
  • Must perform a structural plate weld test if required.

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 27% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$32/hr middle band drawn from 59 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 209 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 122 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 518 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.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), Zachry Group (20), and Austin Industries (20). 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, Dallas at $35/hr, and La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Houston, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. HEM (Industrial Maintenance Mechanic/Millwright) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.