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Job Description

Overview

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, seeking Combination Welders for maintenance work in Chocolate Bayou, TX. The company focuses on providing innovative solutions to increase plant production and reduce costs while prioritizing the safety and satisfaction of its workforce.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms.
  • Select equipment and plan layout, assembly, and welding.
  • Position, align, and fit components together; secure in position for welding.
  • Set up equipment and weld parts using various processes.
  • Assemble parts by bolting and riveting as needed.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Use cutting torch to cut materials and demo existing assemblies.

Requirements

  • Minimum four (4) years of experience in specified skill.
  • Written pre-employment qualification test.
  • Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation.
  • Hazard Communication orientation/test.
  • Turner Industries Group, LLC indoctrination.
  • OSHA approved corrective eye wear (Z87).
  • Job site orientation.
  • Job site safety requirements as required by the client.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • No per diem, ideal for candidates local to the area.
  • 4-10's work scheduled, subject to change.
  • Must pass weld test and safety council.
  • Drug test and employment physical required.
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How this job compares in Alvin, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$34/hr across 341 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 Alvin, TX

Alvin, TX currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 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. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Alvin, or widen the search to Texas.

Turner Industries 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 La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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