Job Description

Overview

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, with over 20,000 employees. They are seeking Combination Welders for maintenance work in Pasadena, TX, focusing on safety and innovative solutions in various industries.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms.
  • Select equipment and plan layout, assembly, and welding.
  • Position, align, and fit components together; secure parts for welding.
  • Assemble parts by bolting and riveting as needed.
  • Weld various materials including carbon steel, stainless steel, and chrome.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Use cutting torch to cut materials and demo existing assemblies.

Requirements

  • Minimum four years of experience in specified skill.
  • Must pass a written pre-employment qualification test.
  • Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation required.
  • NCCER highly preferred or ability to pass craft test.
  • Must have a valid driver's license.
  • Must pass weld test and safety council.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Non-exempt role; reports to the Site Manager / Area Safety Manager.
  • No per diem; ideal for candidates local to the area.
  • Drug test and employment physical required.

How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$34/hr across 341 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 Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 16 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 519 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

Turner Industries currently has 5 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. Pasadena is among them.

Similar openings near Pasadena, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Combination Welder - Pasadena, TX figures were last recalculated when this page was built.