Industrial Maintenance Technician
Location
Baytown, TX
Posted on September 15, 2026
Location
Baytown, TX
Posted on September 15, 2026
National Strand, part of the Metals Processing Group and owned by The Heico Companies, LLC, produces steel wire and cable-related products. The Industrial Maintenance Technician is responsible for the maintenance, installation, troubleshooting, and modification of industrial equipment.
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 433 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
We're tracking 58 other active welding openings in Baytown, TX right now, from 22 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,229 other active welding openings from 582 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Baytown, or widen the search to Texas.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (30), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (25), 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 San Angelo at $39/hr, La Porte at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.