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Job Description

Overview

As a General Maintenance Worker at Sodexo, you will be a problem-solver and safety promoter, performing maintenance services and repairs across various skill areas. The company values creating a better everyday for everyone and believes in the impact of everyday actions.

Responsibilities

  • Perform maintenance service or repairs in one or more skill areas, including minor plumbing, carpentry, painting and plastering, machine servicing, electrical repairs or installations, or vehicle servicing.
  • Change light bulbs, install paper dispenser units, change filters, change locks on doors, and perform minor decorative maintenance.
  • Attend work and show for scheduled shift on time with satisfactory regularity.
  • Other duties may be assigned based on business necessities and client requirements.

Requirements

  • Team-oriented, adaptable, reliable, and promote a healthy/safe working environment.
  • 2 or more years of related experience.
  • Hold appropriate license/certification for the specific work to be done in the city and state.
  • Possess a valid driver's license.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Workdays/shifts include mornings and afternoons/evenings with varying days, and some weekends/holidays.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $18/hr, this posting comes in about 33% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 76 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 5% 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.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 329 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 193 different employers. 145 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.

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