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Job Description

Overview

The Welding Technician position involves welding various types of metals under the supervision of the Welding Foreman, focusing on designing, fabricating, and repairing equipment and fixtures.

Responsibilities

  • Weld all types of metals.
  • Design, fabricate, and repair equipment and fixtures.

Requirements

  • Completion of a 1-year college or technical school training program or equivalent education and/or experience preferred.
  • Completion of formal 4-year apprenticeship preferred.
  • Continuing education courses required after employment.
  • Vendor, new-product training is a continuing requirement after employment.
  • Four years of experience related to welding tasks or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Welding certification.
  • Certification for welding natural gas lines and pressure vessels.
  • Passing of American Welding Society (AWS) standards tests preferred.

Benefits

(No benefits explicitly mentioned)

Additional Information

  • Classified job announcement for all qualified applicants.
  • 8 hours per day/257 days per year.
  • Lane 12 $26.80 (2026 - 2027 Support Salary Table).
  • Promotions result in a 5% minimum increase.
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How this job compares in San Antonio, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in San Antonio, TX

We're tracking 13 other active welding openings in San Antonio, TX right now, from 12 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. 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 San Antonio, 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 San Antonio at $33/hr. San Antonio is among them.

Similar openings near San Antonio, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.