General Labor/Yard Help
Location
Old Sixth Ward, TX
Wage
$16 – $17/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 23, 2026
Location
Old Sixth Ward, TX
Wage
$16 – $17/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on August 23, 2026
This role focuses on inspecting, organizing, and handling steel erection rental equipment in a large outdoor yard environment. The position involves consistent physical labor and offers opportunities for growth within a small, tight-knit team at a remote facility in North Houston.
At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 37% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 2% 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.
Old Sixth Ward, TX currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 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. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Old Sixth Ward, or widen the search to Texas.
Aerotek currently has 9 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. General Labor/Yard Help figures were last recalculated when this page was built.