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Job Description

Overview

Harsco Environmental is a leading provider of material processing and environmental services to the global steel and metals industries. The Heavy Equipment Mechanic position involves maintaining and repairing various types of heavy equipment in an industrial environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform day-to-day maintenance and repair of heavy equipment.
  • Complete diagnostics and troubleshoot heavy off-road equipment.
  • Repair pot carriers, loaders, material handlers, fork trucks, and cranes.
  • Understand technical manuals, illustrations, specifications, diagrams, and schematics.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • 3-7 years’ experience as a heavy equipment mechanic.
  • Ability to perform manual labor in outdoor environments.
  • Good communication skills and ability to read operating instructions.
  • Proactive in safety and works well in a team environment.
  • Knowledge of diesel and gasoline engines, hydraulic systems, and/or electronics preferred.
  • Welding and fabrication skills are a plus.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability
  • 401k

Benefits

Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability
401k
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How this job compares in Midlothian, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $57/hr, this posting sits about 104% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 381 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Midlothian, TX

Midlothian, TX currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 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 1,026 other active welding openings from 468 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Midlothian, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (30), 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 Pasadena at $36/hr, Midlothian at $35/hr, and Dallas at $33/hr. Midlothian is among them.

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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. Heavy Equipment Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.