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Overview

The Field Tank Welder position in Texas City, Texas involves performing welding and grinding functions according to job specifications, while ensuring safety and quality standards are met. The role requires close interaction with supervision and adherence to the company's core values and safety policies.

Responsibilities

  • Actively support the Company’s commitment to safety and its core values.
  • Represent the Company at all times with high moral standards.
  • Efficiently produce quality welds.
  • Perform or assist with fit-up and preparation of welds.
  • Perform or assist with post weld cleanup, inspection, and repair.
  • Communicate regularly with the Field Foreman regarding job site issues.
  • Comply with all Matrix safety policies and programs.
  • Identify and take corrective action on safety hazards.

Requirements

  • Ability to pass various weld tests for tank and specialty vessel welding.
  • Tank building experience preferred.
  • Must maintain an active status within the drug testing program and pass background screening.
  • Must possess or be able to pass the Basic Safety Council Class Courses.
  • Must complete Matrix Service Basic Safety training and site-specific training.
  • Must possess a valid TWIC card.
  • Must maintain clean shaven and/or free of facial hair for respirator/face mask.
  • Must be willing to frequently travel/relocate.
  • Must be willing to work frequent overtime.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work will include pushing, pulling, lifting or carrying objects weighing up to 60 pounds.
  • Must be able to perform tasks at heights and in confined spaces.
  • Must be able to perform tasks in hot and cold temperatures.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Texas City, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 466 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Texas City, TX

Texas City, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 721 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Matrix Service currently has 2 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Texas City, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Tank Welder (Marathon - Texas City, Texas) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.