Forklift Mechanic - 1st Shift
Location
Wilmer, TX
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Wilmer, TX
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Ace Hardware is seeking a Forklift Mechanic for the 1st shift, emphasizing a commitment to values such as Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork. The role involves maintenance and repair of machinery, ensuring a safe and productive workplace.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 466 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.
Wilmer, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 720 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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 (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. Forklift Mechanic - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.