Maintenance I- 2nd Shift
Location
Houston, TX
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 28, 2026
Nucor is North America's largest steel and steel products manufacturer, known for its innovative sustainability practices and vibrant culture that empowers team members. The Maintenance I-2nd Shift position involves ensuring safety and performing maintenance tasks in a dynamic work environment.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$32/hr across 77 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
We're tracking 329 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 193 different employers. 127 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 720 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.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (22), and Austin Industries (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 $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/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 I- 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.