Maintenance Technician
Location
Galena Park, TX
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 5, 2026
Location
Galena Park, TX
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 5, 2026
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for the operation, installation, diagnosis, troubleshooting, repair, preventive maintenance, and overall proper function of various mechanical equipment at Targa Resources, including pumps, steam turbines, compressors, and more.
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 488 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Galena Park, TX currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,424 other active welding openings from 737 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Galena Park, or widen the search to Texas.
Targa Resources currently has 1 other opening 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 (26), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (25), and Austin Industries (23). 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, San Angelo at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.