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Job Description

Overview

The Global Process Engineer - Welding and Heat Treatment role involves engineering related to manufacturing processes, influencing approaches, projects, and programs within the organization. The position requires a high level of operational judgment and has a moderate degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities

  • Perform manufacturing engineering tasks that do not require a 4-year degree.
  • Develop expertise in the discipline and serve as a resource for best practices and quality.
  • Contribute to strategy and policy development and ensure implementation.
  • Utilize judgment to solve moderately complex operational or product management issues.
  • Lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements.
  • Explain difficult or confidential information and work towards consensus.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience comparable to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Proven ability to analyze and solve problems.
  • Demonstrated capability to lead programs/projects.
  • Documented project management skills.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
  • This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on July 04, 2026.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $67/hr, this posting sits about 168% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$30/hr middle band drawn from 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 307 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 180 different employers. 103 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,233 other active welding openings from 688 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 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.

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. Global Process Engineer - Welding and Heat Treatment figures were last recalculated when this page was built.