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Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Welder position involves working in a manufacturing environment with responsibilities including welding, training, and maintaining safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Understand safety rules and precautions for a manufacturing environment.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed/travel, and gas flow.
  • Read tape measures and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide on adjustments or gun manipulation as needed.
  • Determine repairs for pin holes and burn-through from auto welders.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures.
  • Operate overhead cranes and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified shapes, sizes, and penetrations of welds.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Practice continuous improvement in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects and duties by the Team Leader.

Requirements

  • Associates degree or equivalent from a 2-year college or technical school, or 1 to 3 years of welding experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Comprehend documents including policy manuals and safety rules.
  • Effective communication skills in one-on-one and small group settings.
  • Perform general mathematical calculations.
  • Required to use power hand tools.
  • Required to drive a forklift.
  • Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Read different measuring devices like tape measures and protractors.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds continually.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Site Address: 7301 Fairview Street, Houston, TX 77041.
  • Potential for overtime with shifts varying from 8 to 12 hours.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 20% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$35/hr across 87 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 358 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 196 different employers. 101 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,230 other active welding openings from 554 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Cornerstone Building Brands 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 Austin Industries (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (21). 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 $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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