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Overview

The position of Sheet Metal Mechanic Helper involves planning, laying out, fabricating, modifying, repairing, assembling, and installing sheet metal parts and performing welding work in a developmental capacity. This role can be filled at various grade levels and offers opportunities for promotion without further competition.

Responsibilities

  • Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders.
  • Develops patterns, cuts, forms, joins, assembles, and installs items and systems with combined straight and curved edges.
  • Welds commonly used metals in connection with the construction and restoration of sheet metal products.
  • Performs sheet metal mechanic duties safely, utilizing safety practices and complying with established safety rules.
  • Operates and maintains complex hand and power tools and equipment for fabrication and repair.
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How this job compares in Fort Sam Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 52% above the $20/hr median for welder helper jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $18–$23/hr middle band drawn from 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 91% 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 Fort Sam Houston, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Fort Sam Houston, 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.

Similar openings near Fort Sam Houston, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. SHEET METAL MECHANIC HELPER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.