Manual Machinist
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$32/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 11, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$32/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 11, 2026
The Manual Machinist position involves operating lathes and performing various machining tasks in a contract-to-hire role based in Houston, TX. The job requires mechanical experience and offers a pay rate of up to $32.00 per hour with additional benefits.
At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 87 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% 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 351 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 196 different employers. 117 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,395 other active welding openings from 682 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 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. Manual Machinist figures were last recalculated when this page was built.