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Overview

Granite Construction is a leading construction company that values its employees as its most important asset. The Laborer position involves supporting concrete crews at various construction sites while providing opportunities for personal and professional growth through on-the-job training.

Responsibilities

  • Measures distances from grade stakes, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.
  • Bolts, nails, aligns, and blocks up under forms.
  • Signals operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.
  • Levels earth to fine grade specifications using pick and shovel.
  • Mixes concrete using a portable mixer.
  • Smooths and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete using float, trowel, or screed.
  • Positions, joins, aligns, and seals pipe sections.
  • Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
  • Performs a variety of tasks involving dexterous use of hands and tools, such as sawing lumber, dismantling forms, and removing projects from concrete.

Requirements

  • Must have construction experience, heavy construction preferred.
  • Minimum of 1 year experience required.
  • Ability to follow specific directions.
  • Ability to perform a variety of duties which may often change.
  • Ability to work within standards of accuracy.
  • Ability to repeat tasks of short duration according to a set procedure.
  • Ability to evaluate information using measurable standards.
  • Ability to work safely by choice.
  • Ability to work outdoors in all types of weather conditions.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401K
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401K
PTO
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How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$35/hr across 415 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 Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 18 different employers. 7 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 Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Granite Construction currently has 2 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. Laborer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.