Associate Overhaul Technician
Location
DeSoto, TX
Wage
$45,809 – $68,713/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
Location
DeSoto, TX
Wage
$45,809 – $68,713/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an Associate Overhaul Technician to join their global team focused on building sustainable communities through innovation and problem-solving. The role involves the assembly of overhauled turbomachinery products while ensuring safety and quality standards are met.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 487 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in DeSoto, 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 1,424 other active welding openings from 737 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
Solar Turbines currently has 5 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 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Associate Overhaul Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.