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Job Description

Overview

Pacesetter Personnel Services is seeking Structural Welders Class II for a client in Brookshire, TX. The position involves welding and fabricating structural steel components according to specifications, with a pay range of $23.00 to $26.00 an hour, depending on experience.

Responsibilities

  • Weld and fabricate structural steel components according to blueprints, drawings, and specifications.
  • Perform MIG welding.

Requirements

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Pay: $23.00 - $26.00 an hour, depending on experience.
  • We pay weekly.
  • Schedule: Monday through Friday, with some weekends required.
  • 1st shift: 6:00 am - 5:30 pm, 2nd shift: 6:00 pm - 5:30 am.
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How this job compares in Brookshire, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $30/hr median for structural welder jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $26–$34/hr across 24 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 13% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Brookshire, TX

Brookshire, TX currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,082 other active welding openings from 558 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Brookshire, or widen the search to Texas.

Pacesetter Personnel Services 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 Welding Shop in Austin, TX (26), Zachry Group (25), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). 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 Burleson at $40/hr, Pasadena at $40/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

See all structural welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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