Job Description

Overview

Soarnol is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic to provide timely predictive monitoring, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of plant mechanical and rotating equipment to ensure maximum equipment availability.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and repair rotating equipment.
  • Perform preventive and predictive maintenance tasks per work schedule.
  • Perform diagnostic testing, interpret the data, and initiate proactive maintenance.
  • Participate in or lead plant-sponsored improvement initiatives.
  • Understand and follow all applicable plant safety, environmental and quality procedures.
  • Develop and/or follow procedures for routine and non-routine maintenance tasks.
  • Plan, procure parts, and prepare schedule for Millwrights.
  • Work with, and/or direct work of, outside contractors and repair facilities, ensuring compliance with plant contractor procedure.
  • Navigate Maximo computerized maintenance system to enter and retrieve work orders and parts information.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience as rotating equipment technician in chemical manufacturing environment.
  • NCCER Millwright certification is preferred but demonstrated progress towards certification can be considered.
  • Experience in repair techniques of common plant equipment (pumps, compressors, agitators, turbines, etc.).
  • Knowledgeable in the correct use of instruments and tools commonly used by Millwrights.

Benefits

Additional Information

  • Will be working in an outside, chemical manufacturing environment.
  • Atmospheric conditions can vary from cold to extreme heat.
  • May also require occasional work in inclement weather.
  • Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
  • Must be able to work at elevated heights and inside confined spaces.
  • Must be able to wear PPE including breathing air facemask and respirator.
  • Must be able to work overtime and respond to callouts.

How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 57% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 474 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 91% 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.

The local market in La Porte, TX

We're tracking 36 other active welding openings in La Porte, TX right now, from 15 different employers. 7 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 La Porte, 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, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Pasadena 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. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.