Job Description

Overview

The Fitter Helper assists the Fitter in laying out, fitting, and welding fabricated pipe and related components. This role involves various tasks including measuring, cutting, and preparing materials, while adhering to safety and quality control standards.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in measuring, marking, cutting, and positioning structural metal components.
  • Help set up and prepare materials and tools for fitting operations.
  • Hold, align, and secure materials in place while the fitter completes welding or bolting tasks.
  • Use hand tools, power tools, and rigging equipment under supervision.
  • Clean and maintain work areas, tools, and equipment.
  • Follow all site safety rules, PPE requirements, and health regulations.
  • Support quality control efforts by checking materials and finished parts for compliance.
  • Help move heavy materials or components using hoists, cranes, or forklifts as directed.
  • Perform basic grinding, drilling, and deburring as required.
  • Assist in reading and interpreting simple blueprints or drawings.

Requirements

  • Must be physically able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations.
  • Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, read and understand pipe drawings, and procedure manuals.
  • Must be able to write routine reports and correspondence.
  • Must be able to speak effectively with supervisors and other employees.
  • Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Must be able to accurately read tape measure.
  • Must be able to understand and execute instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
  • Must be able to recognize and solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
  • Must be able to use company computer systems to view and understand the action required from the dispatch list.
  • Must be able to read, write and effectively communicate in English.
  • Must be willing to learn and take directions from senior fitters and supervisors.

How this job compares in Crosby, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder helper jobs across Texas currently run a median of $20/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $20–$21/hr across 9 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Crosby, TX

Crosby, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 708 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe Company, 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 Zachry Group (24), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), and Austin Industries (19). 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, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Crosby, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fitter Helper - 1st & 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.