Job Description

Overview

Granite Construction is seeking a General Laborer to join their team, emphasizing the importance of their employees as the foundation of the company's success. This role involves a variety of tasks related to construction and infrastructure development.

Responsibilities

  • Measures distances from grade stakes, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.
  • Bolts, nails, aligns, and blocks up under forms.
  • Signals operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.
  • Levels earth to fine grade specifications, using pick and shovel.
  • Mixes concrete using a portable mixer.
  • Smooths and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete, using float, trowel, or screed.
  • Positions, joins, aligns, and seals pipe sections.
  • Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
  • Performs a variety of tasks involving dextrous use of hands and tools, such as sawing lumber, dismantling forms, and removing projects from concrete.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma, GED or equivalent years of experience.
  • Appropriate training and experience required.
  • Ability to follow specific directions.
  • Ability to perform a variety of duties which may often change.
  • Ability to work within standards of accuracy.
  • Ability to repeat tasks of short duration according to a set procedure.
  • Ability to evaluate information using measurable standards.
  • Must be able to stand or walk for long periods.
  • Must be able to frequently lift and carry materials weighing 50 to 100 pounds.
  • Must be able to climb up and down ladders, scaffolds, and other objects and carry tools and equipment.
  • Must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

How this job compares in Humble, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$35/hr across 488 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 Humble, TX

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Humble, TX right now, from 4 different employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,424 other active welding openings from 737 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Humble, or widen the search to Texas.

Granite 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 Zachry Group (26), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (25), and Austin Industries (23). 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, San Angelo at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Humble, TX

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