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Overview

Clean Harbors Deer Park is seeking a safety-minded Industrial Maintenance Technician II with millwright/boilermaker experience to perform maintenance and repairs on equipment throughout the facility. This position is part of a unionized workforce and offers opportunities for growth within a safety-conscious team.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Health & Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes.
  • Perform preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, disassembling, repairing, and re-assembling parts as necessary.
  • Test mechanical products and equipment after repair or assembly to ensure proper performance and compliance with manufacturers’ specifications.
  • Work with computer instrumentation to perform diagnostics and execute work orders.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Passing Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test – required.
  • Passing 1G (flat) or 3G (vertical) Welding Pre-Qualification Test – required.
  • 3-5+ years of millwright and/or boilermaker type experience – required.
  • Hydraulics system troubleshooting repair – required.
  • JLG Manlift or aerial lift experience - preferred.
  • 18-ton crane picker operator experience - preferred.
  • Must understand schematics and troubleshoot mechanical equipment plant systems (conveyors, pumps, elevators, etc.) – required.
  • Experience operating a cutting torch (propylene) for metal cutting and demolition – required.
  • Ability to meet physical demands of the position, including movements such as lifting, bending, climbing, and the manipulating and handling of objects – required.
  • HS Diploma or equivalent - required.
  • Valid driver’s license – required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This position is covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
  • Rotating shift schedule consisting of 4 day shifts/4 off (on-call), followed by 4 night shifts/4 off (off-call).
  • Supports a 24/7/365 operation, which includes weekends & federal holidays.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 86% 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 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.

Clean Harbors currently has 5 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.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • 3G / 4G — plate position tests — 3G is welded vertically, 4G overhead. Together they demonstrate you can hold a puddle against gravity, and they are the common entry qualifications for structural and production shops.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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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. Industrial Maintenance Technician II (Facility Maintenance Repair II) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.