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WELDER STRUCTURAL - Austin Industrial - Sulphur, LA

Location

Lake Charles, LA

Wage

$51,443/yr

Employment Type

Temporary

Required Skills & Certifications

Stick WeldingFlux-Core Welding
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Posted on August 18, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Austin Industrial is a leading provider of maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to industrial companies across the U.S. The Welder - Structural position involves joining steel components or metal plates using various welding techniques based on blueprints and instructions.

Responsibilities

  • Use Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
  • Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turn valves to release mixture.
  • Reach expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
  • Preheat work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving using torch.
  • Fill holes or correct mistakes in lead pieces and make bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
  • Manually apply filler rod to supply weld metal and may clean or degrease weld joint or workplace.
  • Remove excess weld, defective weld material, slag and spatter using carbon arc gouge, hand scrapper, grinder or power chipper.
  • Climb up ladders or work on scaffolds to take apart textures.
  • Choose place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • No minimum education requirements.
  • 2-4 years of Journeyman level experience.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Benefits

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How this job compares in Lake Charles, LA

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Louisiana, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Lake Charles, LA

Lake Charles, LA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 100 other active welding openings from 72 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Louisiana.

Austin Careers currently has 2 other openings live in Louisiana, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Louisiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Worley (9), Savard Group (6), and The Shaw Group (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Stick and Flux-Core work. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

See all structural welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Similar openings near Lake Charles, LA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. WELDER STRUCTURAL - Austin Industrial - Sulphur, LA figures were last recalculated when this page was built.