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Overview

Valmont is seeking a highly motivated individual for the General Shop Help position in Houston, Texas. The role involves preparing products and materials for the galvanizing process and ensuring safe operations within the plant.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect and ensure the safe use and disposition of production fixtures, chains and hooks.
  • Hand wire small to medium-sized parts to racks for pickling or galvanizing.
  • Pull and place chains and ropes around steel bundles for racking.
  • Move lightweight pieces of steel by hand from different locations in the plant and yard.
  • Perform paddling functions to enhance the quality level of the various galvanized products using air guns to blow off zinc needles.
  • Use air or electric powered tools to help prepare or clean up steel for pickling or galvanizing.
  • Assist in general plant clean up and housekeeping.
  • Work safely, protecting self and others from accident and injury.

Requirements

  • The ability to read and follow written and verbal instructions.
  • The ability to accurately read a tape measure.
  • The ability to communicate problems or needs to departmental supervision.
  • The ability to lift up to 50 pounds from ground to shoulder height or higher.
  • Must be physically able to stand for long periods of time in an open air environment and wear PPE.
  • Must have a high awareness for safety at all times.
  • Must be a person of passion and integrity who has the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results.
  • High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
  • Six months of previous experience in a galvanizing position.
  • Six months of previous experience with hand tools and gauges.
  • Six months of previous experience operating a bridge crane.
  • Certification of heavy equipment operation including forklift.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Employer paid life insurance
  • Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
  • Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

Additional Information

  • Location: 6123 Cunningham Rd Houston Texas 77041
  • Available Shifts: 1st Shift (Monday-Friday 5:00 am to 1:45 pm), 2nd Shift (Monday-Friday 4:00 pm to 12:45 am)

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
Employer paid life insurance
Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $18/hr, this posting comes in about 29% below the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 9% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 326 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 187 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 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 Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Valmont Industries, Inc. 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, Dallas at $35/hr, and San Antonio at $33/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. General Shop Help figures were last recalculated when this page was built.