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Job Description

Overview

French Ellison Truck Center is currently accepting applications for a Fabricator/Welder. This role involves the fabrication and welding of oilfield equipment, and offers excellent benefits as part of a growing and successful dealer group.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate, weld, and repair oilfield equipment
  • Maintain accurate dimensional tolerances
  • Work from drawings, blueprints, verbal instructions, and other
  • Flag time worked and write stories
  • Clean and maintain welding equipment
  • Adhere to safety procedures

Requirements

  • Formal technical training degree, certificate or diploma preferred or equivalent work experience
  • Must have experience with fabrication and welding on both metal and aluminum
  • Must be able to handle heavy materials manually and with machinery
  • Must have general tools to perform minor mechanical duties
  • Effective written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to read and interpret shop repair order forms, repair manuals, blueprints, and various other technical bulletins
  • Ability to use computer keyboard and Windows basics
  • Ability to work in an environment with frequent exposure to outside weather elements
  • Ability to work 8 - 10 hour days, including overtime hours as needed
  • Ability to bend, stoop, crawl, walk and sit on a regular basis with frequent lifting of up to 50 pounds and occasional lifting of up to 100 pounds
  • Ability to pass a pre-employment physical and drug screen
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How this job compares in Corpus Christi, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Texas currently run a median of $22/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$28/hr across 37 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 Corpus Christi, TX

Corpus Christi, TX currently has 3 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 518 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Corpus Christi, or widen the search to 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.

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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. Fabricator/Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.