Quality Technician
Location
Irving, TX
Wage
$28.85 – $32.65/hr
Posted on September 4, 2026
Location
Irving, TX
Wage
$28.85 – $32.65/hr
Posted on September 4, 2026
At Quest Global, a leading engineering services provider with over 25 years of experience, the Quality Technician role focuses on performing inspections of aerospace parts and assemblies while fostering a culture of diversity and innovation.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 487 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 59% 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.
We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Irving, TX right now, from 15 different employers. 8 of them were 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 Irving, or widen the search to Texas.
Quest Global 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Quality Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.