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Overview

Texas Wash Works is seeking an Installation/Welder Technician to assist with the installation, assembly, fabrication, and repair of vehicle wash equipment at customer locations. This position combines mechanical installation work with welding and fabrication responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Assist with the installation, assembly, fabrication, and repair of vehicle wash equipment.
  • Perform mechanical installation work.
  • Handle welding and fabrication responsibilities.
  • Travel to job sites as required.

Requirements

  • Mechanically inclined.
  • Safety-conscious.
  • Comfortable working with tools and equipment.

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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $14/hr, this posting comes in about 42% below the $24/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$30/hr across 70 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 239 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 142 different employers. 29 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,082 other active welding openings from 557 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.

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.

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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. Installation and Welding Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.