Maintenance Technicians - Mechanical Millwright OC
Location
Ore City, TX
Wage
$25,022/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
Location
Ore City, TX
Wage
$25,022/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
The Maintenance Technicians - Mechanical Millwright OC position involves various roles including Millwright, Maintenance Planner, Lead Maintenance Tech, Maintenance Foreman, and Tooling Technician. The job focuses on performing inspections, maintenance, and repairs on equipment, ensuring safety, teamwork, and ethical practices in an industrial environment.
At roughly $12/hr, this posting comes in about 54% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Ore City, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 518 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technicians - Mechanical Millwright OC figures were last recalculated when this page was built.