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Job Description

Overview

Vaughn is a regional commercial construction company operating throughout Texas, focused on building higher education, healthcare, and research buildings for commercial clients. The company emphasizes a family-like environment and is committed to safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and work ethic.

Responsibilities

  • Perform a variety of tasks involving strenuous manual labor in heavy construction projects.
  • Unload, carry, place, and secure concrete reinforcing steel and accessories.
  • Manually excavate and fill trenches and ditches.
  • Handle and store materials.
  • Place and finish concrete utilizing hand and power tools including troweling machines.
  • Prepare for concrete pour including installing embedded items and cleaning.
  • Perform concrete patching, repairing, and rubbing.
  • Construct wooden forms for molding concrete structures according to specs.
  • Mans entry and egress gates to control jobsite.
  • Assist in demolishing activities.
  • Operate pneumatic hammers, vibrators, and tampers.
  • Operate electric powered tools.
  • Signal operators to guide them in moving equipment and provide assistance.
  • Operate large powered machinery and equipment.
  • Follow safety rules.
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

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.

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 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 Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Vaughn Construction currently has 1 other opening 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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