Fitter and Welder 2nd Shift
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 14, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$21.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 14, 2026
Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Fitter and Welder position on the 2nd shift requires welding and fitting skills, with responsibilities including interpreting blueprints and ensuring safety in a manufacturing environment.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 87 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 16% 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.
We're tracking 351 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 197 different employers. 116 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,395 other active welding openings from 683 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.
Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 4 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 Welding Shop in Austin, TX (26), Zachry Group (25), and Austin Industries (25). 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, La Porte at $38/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. Fitter and Welder 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.