Welding & Fabrication QA/QC Inspector
Location
Odessa, TX
Wage
$75,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Odessa, TX
Wage
$75,000 – $100,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
We are seeking an experienced QA/QC Inspector – Welding & Fabrication to ensure our fabricated products meet engineering drawings, project specifications, applicable welding codes, and customer requirements. This position will work closely with Fabrication, Welding, Engineering, and Project Management to identify and resolve quality issues throughout the fabrication process.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 91% above the $22/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$28/hr middle band drawn from 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 97% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Odessa, TX currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 8 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 519 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Odessa, or widen the search to Texas.
R & D SPECIALTIES LLC. currently has 1 other opening 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding & Fabrication QA/QC Inspector figures were last recalculated when this page was built.