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Overview

The Frame Shop Steel Fabricator is responsible for measuring, cutting, and shaping steel components according to engineering drawings and production specifications. This position operates fabrication equipment and tools to prepare materials for welding, assembly, and final production while ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, work orders, and specifications.
  • Measure, mark, and cut steel components according to specifications.
  • Operate fabrication equipment and tools for material preparation.
  • Ensure quality, safety, and efficiency standards are met.

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How this job compares in Highland Park, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting sits about 19% above the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $20–$27/hr middle band drawn from 46 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% 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 Highland Park, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Highland Park, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,014 other active welding openings from 546 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Ecolab 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 (21), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). 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, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/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. Frame Shop Steel Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.