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Job Description

Overview

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, with over 20,000 employees. They are seeking a Rig Welder for project work in the Pasadena, TX area, focusing on providing innovative solutions in various industries.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms.
  • Select equipment and plan layout, assembly, and welding.
  • Position, align, and fit components together; secure parts for welding.
  • Set up equipment and weld parts using various techniques.
  • Assemble parts by bolting and riveting as needed.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Use cutting torch to cut materials and demo existing assemblies.

Requirements

  • Minimum four (4) years of experience in specified skill.
  • Written pre-employment qualification test.
  • Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation.
  • Hazard Communication orientation/test.
  • Turner Industries Group, LLC indoctrination.
  • OSHA approved corrective eyewear (Z87).
  • Job site orientation.
  • Job site safety requirements as required by the client.

Additional Information

  • No per diem, ideal for candidates local to the area.
  • Welder will need to provide his own truck/Rig.
  • 40-50 hours +, subject to change.
  • Drug test and employment physical required.

Compensation

  • $40.00 per hour.
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How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 43% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 424 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 86% 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 28 other active welding openings in La Porte, TX right now, from 11 different employers. 8 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 597 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.

Turner Industries currently has 7 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 Austin Industries (29), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Irving at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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