Welder (Weekend Days -3rd Shift)
Location
Brenham, TX
Wage
$20 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 1, 2026
Location
Brenham, TX
Wage
$20 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 1, 2026
As a Welder at Emerson's Brenham, TX facility, you'll help manufacture precision products used by customers around the world. We are looking for dependable team members who are committed to quality, safety, and continuous learning.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 354 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Brenham, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 937 other active welding openings from 523 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (26), Zachry Group (20), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (16). 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.
This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder (Weekend Days -3rd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.