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Overview

The Stainless Steel Tanker Maintenance Technician is responsible for performing repairs, inspections, and welding on specialized equipment, ensuring safe and productive operations. This role involves maintaining air, electrical, and hydraulic systems and requires a broad understanding of welding techniques and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Performs complex inspections, conducts diagnostic tests, and performs preventative maintenance.
  • Performs complex work on specialized equipment, such as MC -306/406 tank trailers, Aluminum Trainers, and DOT407 and 412 Trailers.
  • Diagnoses and repairs electrical and hydraulic problems on equipment.
  • Performs or assists lower-level employees with installations as scheduled and meets relevant deadlines.
  • Performs complex welding and fabrication on various items and equipment using cutting, burning, and welding techniques and equipment.
  • Performs work in confined space while communicating with attendant.
  • Ensures and maintains efficiencies so that scheduled jobs can be handled within the designated time frame.
  • Completes paperwork and/or enters data associated with equipment repair in an accurate and timely manner.
  • Follows all safety policies and procedures. Maintains a clean and safe work environment.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned or needed.

Requirements

  • Broad understanding of operational procedures and tools used in welding including designs, uses, maintenance and repair.
  • Excellent ability to read and listen to assignments given in a variety of forms.
  • Broad knowledge of MIG and TIG welders, plasma cutters, and airless paint sprayers.
  • Ability to work independently with limited supervision for routine situations.
  • Broad understanding of design techniques, principles, and tools necessary for the precise production of technical plans, drawings, models and blueprints.
  • Ability to interpret blueprints, drawings, and measurements to plan layouts that are not routine and require analysis to understand.
  • Valid Driver’s License.
  • Ability to enter 20-inch Man-Way hole.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Baytown, TX

Pay in context

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 454 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 Baytown, TX

We're tracking 63 other active welding openings in Baytown, TX right now, from 22 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,288 other active welding openings from 594 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.

Republic Services currently has 4 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 Austin Industries (31), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

See all stainless steel welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Stainless Steel Tanker Technician / Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.