Industrial Pipefitter (IRP Technician)
Location
Austin, TX
Wage
$40 – $50/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 15, 2026
Location
Austin, TX
Wage
$40 – $50/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 15, 2026
We are interested in and highly encourage job seekers to apply who have an aptitude to learn, college graduates, or individuals with a military background. The IRP Technician is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and responding to critical FAB infrastructure and facility systems during shift operations. Serving as the primary on-site technical resource during off-hours and weekends, this role ensures a rapid response to equipment failures, utility disruptions, and facility alarms to minimize downtime and maintain safe, continuous operations. Benefits include the following: • Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance • 401K • PTO • Paid Holiday's • Gold's Gym Membership and much more! Please follow the pre-screen questions and schedule a time to speak with a Recruiter.
salary: $40 - $50 per hour shift: First work hours: 6:45 AM - 7:15 PM education: High School
Responsibilities
• • Monitor FAB infrastructure and facility systems
The essential functions of this role include:
• working in a smoke free environment • manual lifting up to 50lbs • standing for 10 hours at one time • working up to 8 hrs of overtime per week • working weekends Skills • Mechanical Maintenance • Blueprint Reading • Monitoring • Inspection • Blueprints • Product Inspection • Pipe Fitting • Tig • Welding • Orbital Welding Qualifications • Years of experience: 2 years • Experience level: Experienced Randstad is a world leader in matching great people with great companies. Our experienced agents will listen carefully to your employment needs and then work diligently to match your skills and qualifications to the right job and company. Whether you're looking for temporary, temporary-to-permanent or permanent opportunities, no one works harder for you than Randstad.
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At Randstad, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 67% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs in Austin, TX — toward the top of a $20–$30/hr middle band drawn from 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% 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 32 other active welding openings in Austin, TX right now, from 10 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,088 other active welding openings from 560 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Austin, or widen the search to Texas.
Randstad USA 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 (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 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.
This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all pipefitter openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Pipefitter (IRP Technician) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.