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Overview

The Cylinder Maintenance Technician at Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. in Houston, TX, is responsible for performing inspections, repairs, and maintenance on gas cylinders. This role involves operating testing equipment and ensuring safety standards while contributing to a clean and safe work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform visual and physical inspections on cylinders before filling.
  • Conduct cylinder conversions, including de-valving, valving, stripping, and repairing valves.
  • Operate hydrostatic and ultrasonic cylinder testers.
  • Maintain required certifications to certify cylinders as retested.
  • Operate a forklift for material handling and movement of cylinders.
  • Receive incoming cylinders, valves, and maintenance supplies.
  • Diagnose and repair cylinder neck leaks and safety-related leaks.
  • Inspect and identify defective cylinders, scrapping them when appropriate.
  • Perform painting, housekeeping, and light plant maintenance tasks.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Experience in the gas industry or cylinder maintenance is preferred.
  • Ability to lift and handle up to 40 - 70 lbs.
  • Mechanically inclined with a strong, self-motivated work ethic.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: 3rd Shift
  • Location: Houston, TX, United States

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 76 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 36% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 329 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 193 different employers. 126 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 721 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.

Linde Gas & Equipment currently has 1 other opening 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 (27), Zachry Group (22), and Austin Industries (16). 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 $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Cylinder Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.