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Overview

This position is for a Welding & Fabrication Shop Manager who will lead a skilled welding and structural steel fabrication operation in Houston, TX. The role involves overseeing shop operations, developing a fabrication team, and improving efficiency and quality in a growing manufacturing organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee daily welding and structural steel fabrication shop operations.
  • Supervise, coach, and develop welders, fabricators, and other shop personnel.
  • Plan and coordinate production activities to meet schedules, quality standards, and customer requirements.
  • Monitor workflow, staffing, materials, equipment, and production priorities.
  • Review fabrication work, drawings, measurements, and finished products for quality and accuracy.
  • Help establish and maintain efficient welding and fabrication processes.
  • Identify production bottlenecks and implement practical improvements to increase productivity.
  • Enforce shop safety procedures, housekeeping standards, and proper use of equipment and PPE.
  • Coordinate with engineering, project management, purchasing, and other teams to keep jobs moving efficiently.
  • Troubleshoot fabrication issues and provide hands-on guidance when technical challenges arise.
  • Monitor labor, material usage, rework, and production performance.
  • Help ensure projects are completed accurately, safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of welding and/or structural steel fabrication experience.
  • 2+ years supervising welders, fabricators, or skilled-trades production personnel.
  • Strong understanding of welding and structural steel fabrication processes.
  • Ability to read and interpret shop drawings, fabrication drawings, and measurements.
  • Strong knowledge of shop safety practices and quality standards.
  • Proven ability to organize production priorities and manage multiple jobs.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced fabrication shop environment.
  • Ability to hold team members accountable while maintaining a collaborative, professional culture.

Benefits

  • Dental
  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • This is an on-site position in Houston, TX.
  • This is a hands-on shop leadership position.

Benefits

Dental
Health Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $47/hr, this posting sits about 88% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$31/hr middle band drawn from 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 94% 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.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 326 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 186 different employers. 120 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 707 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

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.

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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 Shop Manager figures were last recalculated when this page was built.