Job Description

Overview

As a Trailer Technician II, you'll perform mid-range diagnostics and troubleshooting, and most repairs and replacements and preventative maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Performs mid-range diagnostics and troubleshooting.
  • Performs mid-range to advanced welding.
  • Performs most repairs, preventative maintenance, and replacements in assigned specific classification.
  • Operates with most tools, including pneumatic.
  • Usually works independently on repair orders.
  • Provides some training and assistance to other Techs.
  • Performs major trailer repairs.
  • Performs various welding.
  • Diagnoses and repairs ABS brakes and air brake systems.
  • Repairs and replaces suspension systems, vertical post and sheet metal paneling, and overhead swing doors.
  • Completes brake jobs.
  • Performs sheet metal fabricating.
  • Performs Trailer Tech I duties.

Requirements

  • Experience as a mechanic.
  • Proficiency in electrical theory.
  • Cutting and welding skills.
  • Ability to read schematic diagrams, including electrical.
  • Ability to perform intermediate repairs.
  • Ability to train and develop other Techs.
  • Education or equivalent.
  • Current CDL.
  • Current DOT certification.
  • OEM certification in brakes, structural repair, overhead door, suspension, and electrical.
  • Third-party tire certification.
  • Welding certification.
  • Completion of third-party training.

Additional Information

  • Work in a team environment.
  • Lift 100 lbs and carry a distance of 5 ft.
  • Work sitting, standing, stooping, bending, and in a prone position.
  • Work with hands over head.
  • Climb and work from a ladder.
  • Meet H-E-B driving qualifications.
  • Possess and maintain required tools.
  • Obtain DOT certification within 1 year of hire.
  • Work toward ASE certifications T4, T5, T6, and T8.

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$32/hr across 60 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 209 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 123 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. 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 Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

H-E-B currently has 3 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 La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Houston, TX

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