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BigDecks

Landscape Welder – Steel Fencing – $25/hr – Austin, TX

Location

Austin, TX

Wage

$25/hr

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG Welding
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Posted on July 28, 2026

Job Description

Overview

BigDecks is a premium outdoor design-build company in Austin that specializes in building large-format real wood decks and outdoor environments. They are currently hiring a welder for steel fencing work on their projects.

Requirements

  • Verifiable work history and experience in steel fencing
  • Competence in Miller MIG welding process with gas

Benefits

  • All equipment, materials, and consumables provided

If you know your way around steel fence fabrication and installation and can run a clean MIG bead, we want to talk. Reply with your work history and a brief summary of your fencing and welding experience.

Benefits

All equipment, materials, and consumables provided
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How this job compares in Austin, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs in Austin, TX, whose middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% 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 Austin, TX

We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Austin, TX right now, from 14 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 518 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Austin, 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

Similar openings near Austin, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Landscape Welder – Steel Fencing – $25/hr – Austin, TX figures were last recalculated when this page was built.