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Overview

The Weld Technician is responsible for conducting weld audits, verifying equipment settings, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring compliance with welding standards in a manufacturing environment. The role requires strong communication skills to collaborate with welders and quality control inspectors.

Responsibilities

  • Audit structural and A surface welds 2x per day, every weld line.
  • Correct and coach welders and leads as needed.
  • Document non-conforming welds into a daily audit report.
  • Communicate with QC inspectors to resolve weld issues.
  • Verify welder settings per standard.
  • Check gas mixes to ensure they meet standards.
  • Troubleshoot welding equipment issues.
  • Ensure consumables are installed correctly.
  • Verify there are no bare grounds or damaged leads and guns.
  • Review and verify prints/weld maps.
  • Help create Standard Work on weld lines.
  • Audit Weld PPE.
  • Audit Proper Body and Hand Placement.
  • Perform any other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years welding experience.
  • Management experience preferred.
  • Valid welding certifications preferred.
  • Destructive testing experience preferred.

Benefits

  • None mentioned.

Additional Information

  • None mentioned.
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How this job compares in Wills Point, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% 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 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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Weld Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.