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Overview

The Shop Welder is responsible for ensuring the timely, accurate, and cost-effective completion of jobs and projects assigned by the Grounds Foreman. This role involves maintaining shop tools and equipment, as well as the welding truck and district maintenance fleet.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair company trucks.
  • Estimate materials, order and obtain materials as required, and inform supervisor of needs.
  • Maintain accountability of tools, equipment, and supplies.
  • Identify and resolve various repair problems to ensure proper job completion.
  • Maintain accurate records for proper completion of work orders.
  • Demonstrate an attitude of quality service, teamwork, and good public relations.
  • Function within the policies and administrative procedures of the Ector County Independent School District.
  • Be available for emergency call outs on evenings, weekends, and holidays.
  • Read and interpret technical materials and specifications.
  • Communicate effectively with a varied workforce.
  • Perform all other tasks and duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent.
  • Valid Texas driver's license.
  • General knowledge of welding.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Days: 247

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How this job compares in Odessa, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $24/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 38% 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 Odessa, TX

Odessa, TX currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 7 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. 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 Odessa, 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.

Similar openings near Odessa, TX

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