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Overview

Turner Industries is a leading industrial contractor based in Baton Rouge, LA, seeking a Journeyman Millwright for maintenance work at a facility in Pasadena, TX. The company focuses on providing innovative solutions to enhance plant production and reduce costs while prioritizing employee safety and satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Installs and maintains machinery and equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, and written instructions.
  • Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
  • Dismantles machines and moves machinery and equipment.
  • Assembles and installs equipment such as shafting, conveyors, pumps, compressors, and turbines.
  • Aligns machines and equipment using reverse alignment method.
  • Repairs and lubricates machines and equipment.
  • May operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to specifications.
  • Involved in the grouting activity for equipment base plates.
  • Removes plant equipment, disassembles, repairs, and reinstalls.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Maintenance Millwright required.
  • Experience working with centrifugal pumps, troubleshooting, rebuilding, seal changes, and pump motor alignment.
  • NCCER Plus highly preferred.
  • Must have or be able to obtain a TWIC card.
  • Background check and drug test required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Benefits
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Non-exempt role; reports to the Supervisor.
  • Must be available to work overtime and call-outs as needed.
  • 5/8's work schedule; subject to change.
  • No Per Diem; ideal for candidates local to the area.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Benefits
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Pasadena, TX, whose middle half runs $31–$82/hr across 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 40% 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.

The local market in Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 30 different employers. 14 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 721 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

Turner Industries currently has 7 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 (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. Pasadena is among them.

Similar openings near Pasadena, TX

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