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Overview

Ferguson is seeking a Fabrication Associate to join their team, traveling to various locations across the country to service industrial customers with their fabrication needs. This role involves working in both Ferguson warehouses and customer sites, ensuring the successful execution of pipe fabrication tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Setup and maintain machines in the shop for pipe fabrication.
  • Accurately measure, record, and add random pipe length.
  • Measure and cut pipe with band saw and/or torch, rolling and grooving single and double random lengths and threading and beveling of pipe with landis machines.
  • Move loose and/or bundled pipe from various locations within the pipe yard.
  • Assemble pipe orders whether in single sticks or bundles and maintain work supplies in an organized manner.
  • Observe vital safety precautions for fabrications, cutting, assembling, stacking and shipping of pipe for storage and transportation.
  • Operate powered industrial equipment in accordance with OSHA guidelines and Ferguson safe operating procedures.

Requirements

  • 1-3 years of fabrication experience is preferred.
  • Outstanding math skills and the ability to calculate quantities of product on hand.
  • Experience and training in operating machinery for the use of cutting and threading pipe according to OSHA regulations preferred.
  • Ability to remain results-focused in the fast-paced customer service environment.
  • The ability to thrive in an inclusive environment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Expect to travel up to 100% of the time based off where you're located.
  • When not at customer job site, it is required to be in La Porte, TX.
  • Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm– OT as needed – possible weekends.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% 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 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.

Ferguson currently has 7 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 (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 $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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. Fabrication Associate figures were last recalculated when this page was built.