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Job Description

Overview

Koch Specialty Plant Services, LLC is seeking Tower Mechanics for various locations in the U.S. to provide tower, vessel, and mass transfer equipment services to the refining and chemical industry.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and properly install trays, packing, grid, feed pipe, distributors, collectors, and various column pressure internals under limited supervision.
  • Possess basic Process Safety Management knowledge and Hazardous Communication skills.
  • Able to identify exchanger components such as straight tube, U bend, fixed head bundles, channel head, dollar plate, bell head, and floating head.
  • Identify hand and power tools and their purposes.
  • Ability to identify and use all tools and equipment necessary to perform assigned work.

Requirements

  • 6 months or more of industry experience preferred.
  • Previous experience in gas and oil field construction preferred.
  • Must provide your own transportation to job locations throughout the U.S.
  • Must meet all Company and Customer project entry requirements including training, background check, and drug test.
  • Must have current TWIC Card or ability to obtain one if required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $26/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$34/hr across 87 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 360 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 211 different employers. 157 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 Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Koch Specialty Plant Services, LLC 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 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.

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