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Overview

The company is actively hiring welders for various welding applications under direct supervision. The role involves performing welding tasks on different types of trailers while adhering to quality specifications and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Perform work in a professional and safe manner, reporting unsafe work practices.
  • Learn and understand layout, assembly, and welding procedures.
  • Complete and understand reports including scrap, safety, quality, work orders, and inventory.
  • Bolt, clamp, and tack-weld parts to secure them for welding.
  • Assemble parts by bolting as needed.
  • Perform constant bending, stooping, reaching, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
  • Learn techniques for repairing products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, cutting, and reassembling parts.
  • Use fabrication equipment such as plasma cutters and cutting torches.
  • Clean and quality check all welds and run structural welds.
  • Read and interpret drawings.
  • Assist the team in diagnosing, troubleshooting, and solving welding problems.
  • Adhere to the company’s Quality Programs and safety regulations.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or G.E.D Equivalent.
  • Preferred technical education courses from vocational or technical institutes.
  • Strong understanding of blueprints, welding specifications, and procedures.
  • Ability to use and read welding measuring devices.
  • Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
  • Communicate effectively with supervision and team members.
  • Make repair welds using fabrication equipment.
  • Basic math skills for calculating material fabrication.
  • Learn the proper use of fabrication support equipment.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Referral & Retention Bonus with Monthly Attendance incentives.
  • Competitive pay based on experience.
  • Overtime available on Friday & Saturday.
  • Benefits available at 60 days.
  • PTO available at 90 days.
  • 10 paid holidays.
  • 10 hr. shifts M-Th (Day & Night shifts).

Benefits

401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Wills Point, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $19/hr, this posting comes in about 29% 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 9% 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.

The local market in Wills Point, TX

Wills Point, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 519 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing currently has 2 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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