Tube Line Startup & Technical Specialist

Location

Baytown, TX

Wage

$90,000 – $153,200/yr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on September 10, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Greif is a global leader in performance packaging, launching a new steel tube production line to enhance its IBC business. The Tube Line Startup & Technical Specialist will be responsible for getting the line operational and ensuring its long-term reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Support commissioning, installation validation, equipment testing, and startup activities.
  • Troubleshoot roll forming, HF/ERW welding, sizing, cutoff, mechanical, electrical, and process issues.
  • Validate equipment performance against design expectations.
  • Adjust and optimize equipment settings to improve stability, speed, quality, and throughput.
  • Help resolve early ramp-up issues that impact safety, quality, uptime, scrap, or production output.
  • Train operators and maintenance technicians on equipment operation, inspection, and troubleshooting.
  • Help establish maintenance routines, inspection standards, and baseline equipment practices.
  • Support preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
  • Diagnose equipment failures and implement long-term solutions.
  • Improve uptime, availability, reliability, and OEE.
  • Support shutdown planning and maintenance execution.
  • Analyze equipment and process data to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Support quality issue resolution, including weld integrity, tube dimensions, surface defects, and process stability.
  • Lead small improvement projects and partner across Maintenance, Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Production.

Requirements

  • Associate’s degree or technical certification in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Maintenance, or a related field preferred; equivalent directly relevant maintenance experience will be considered.
  • 4+ years of maintenance experience in manufacturing.
  • Steel tube manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience with tube forming systems, HF/ERW welding, sizing, cutoff equipment, and related production processes.
  • Strong mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and industrial troubleshooting capability.
  • Ability to read technical drawings, schematics, and equipment documentation.
  • Experience with predictive maintenance, failure analysis, root cause analysis, and corrective action.
  • Ability to guide, train, and mentor technicians and operators.
  • Strong communication skills with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Production, and Leadership teams.
  • Safety-first mindset with strong attention to quality, detail, and process discipline.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Hands-on role on the manufacturing floor.
  • Fast-paced startup environment during the first several months.
  • Long-term opportunity to shape maintenance standards and reliability practices for a new line.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Baytown, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $58/hr, this posting sits about 109% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 453 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% 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 Baytown, TX

We're tracking 73 other active welding openings in Baytown, TX right now, from 28 different employers. 19 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,424 other active welding openings from 736 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Baytown, or widen the search to Texas.

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 San Angelo at $41/hr, Pasadena at $40/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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