Maintenance Tech - Mechanical III
Location
Lancaster, TX
Wage
$34 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Lancaster, TX
Wage
$34 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging, committed to sustainability and supporting various industries. The Maintenance Tech will troubleshoot and conduct repairs and preventive maintenance for injection molding machines and support equipment.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 33% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 429 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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.
Lancaster, TX currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 2 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. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Lancaster, 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Tech - Mechanical III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.