Welder
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$40,000 – $52,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$40,000 – $52,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
We are seeking a skilled Sheet Metal Fabrication Welder to join our manufacturing team. In this role, you will fabricate, fit, and assemble stainless steel, carbon steel, and other sheet metal components according to engineering drawings, blueprints, and work instructions. This will be a day shift Mon-Fri 8a to 5p paying up to $25 a hour. Responsibilities include setting up and operating MIG, TIG, and spot-welding machinery, as well as operating fabrication equipment such as shears, saws, and grinders to prepare and finish welded assemblies. Qualified candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of sheet metal fabrication experience, blueprint reading ability, proficiency with measuring tools to inspect welds for accuracy and strength, and basic math skills. Candidates must be able to lift up to 50 lbs., work in various positions in a shop environment with heat, noise, and fumes, maintain a clean workspace, and adhere strictly to all workplace safety procedures and PPE requirements.
salary: $40,000 - $52,000 per year shift: First work hours: 8 AM - 4 PM education: High School
Responsibilities
We are seeking a skilled Sheet Metal Fabrication Welder to join our manufacturing team. In this role, you will fabricate, fit, and assemble stainless steel, carbon steel, and other sheet metal components according to engineering drawings, blueprints, and work instructions. Responsibilities include setting up and operating MIG, TIG, and spot-welding machinery, as well as operating fabrication equipment such as shears, saws, and grinders to prepare and finish welded assemblies. Qualified candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of sheet metal fabrication experience, blueprint reading ability, proficiency with measuring tools to inspect welds for accuracy and strength, and basic math skills. Candidates must be able to lift up to 50 lbs., work in various positions in a shop environment with heat, noise, and fumes, maintain a clean workspace, and adhere strictly to all workplace safety procedures and PPE requirements.
Skills • Mig (2 years of experience is preferred) • Tig (2 years of experience is preferred) • Flux Core (2 years of experience is required) • Hood (2 years of experience is required) • Stainless (2 years of experience is required) • Carbon Steel (2 years of experience is required) • Blueprint Reading (2 years of experience is required) Qualifications • Years of experience: 2 years • Experience level: Experienced Randstad is a world leader in matching great people with great companies. Our experienced agents will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temporary-to-permanent or permanent opportunities, no one works harder for you than Randstad.
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At Randstad, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, whose middle half runs $22–$32/hr across 56 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 36% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
We're tracking 209 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 123 different employers. 15 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 940 other active welding openings from 523 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.
Randstad USA currently has 2 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 Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), 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 MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. 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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.