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Overview

Crash Champions is the largest founder-led multi-shop operator of high-quality collision repair service in the U.S., operating over 650 locations across 38 states. The Auto Body Technician role involves examining damaged vehicles, planning repairs, and ensuring quality while maintaining communication with team members.

Responsibilities

  • Examines damaged vehicle and efficiently plans repair process.
  • Works and communicates with others on vehicle repair status.
  • Performs quality repairs while keeping on-time status in mind.
  • Makes decisions on repair vs. replace considering safety, cost, and cycle time.
  • Removes upholstery, accessories, electrical and hydraulic window operating equipment, and trim to gain access to vehicle and fenders.
  • Participates in all required safety meetings.
  • Files, grinds, and sands repaired surfaces, using power tools and hand tools.
  • Directs the work of an apprentice in the performance of tasks when needed.

Requirements

  • Ability to use frame machine.
  • Certification in body repair preferred.
  • Knowledge of vehicle repair process by manufacturer.
  • I-CAR welding certified.
  • Skill in analyzing and interpreting measuring data.
  • Ability to supervise repair personnel.
  • Must be able to pass thorough background check.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Group Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $59/hr, this posting sits about 67% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX — toward the top of a $28–$40/hr middle band drawn from 46 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 98% 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 115 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 82 different employers. 59 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 708 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

Crash Champions 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 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. Dallas is among them.

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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. Auto Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.