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Overview

Austin Industrial is an industry leader in maintenance, construction, and soft craft services, providing solutions to industrial companies across the U.S. The Combination Welder role involves joining metal parts using various welding techniques as specified by layout and instructions.

Responsibilities

  • Uses welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
  • Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.
  • Reaches expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
  • Preheats work pieces for welding or curving using a torch.
  • Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
  • Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures them with straightedge or template to ensure specifications are met.
  • Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
  • Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
  • Uses thermal-cutting equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
  • Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
  • Chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
  • Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
  • Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • No minimum education requirements.
  • 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.
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How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$34/hr across 341 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 La Porte, TX

We're tracking 22 other active welding openings in La Porte, TX right now, from 11 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 519 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in La Porte, or widen the search to Texas.

Austin Industries currently has 19 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 Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), Zachry Group (20), and Austin Industries (19). 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 La Porte at $32/hr. La Porte is among them.

Similar openings near La Porte, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Combination Welder (La Porte, TX ) - Austin Industrial figures were last recalculated when this page was built.