Job Description

Overview

Openwork is seeking an Industrial Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join the engineering and maintenance team at their Pasadena facility. This role involves executing mechanical maintenance activities in a safety-critical environment, ensuring optimal operating conditions for machinery and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Repair, install, adjust, or replace machinery, processing components, and heavy plant equipment.
  • Demonstrate and apply understanding of bearings, conveyors, rotary valves, lubrication systems, hydraulic systems, and pneumatic systems.
  • Assist in the plant’s preventative maintenance programs and log completed work orders accurately.
  • Perform routine pipefitting, plant plumbing, and minor pump repairs to prevent operational downtime.
  • Coordinate with the PM crew and shift operations to execute scheduled repairs efficiently.
  • Move parts/equipment safely and maintain maintenance shops, work areas, and tools in a clean condition.

Requirements

  • 1 to 3 years of hands-on experience in process equipment maintenance, rotating equipment repair, and pipefitting.
  • Proven ability to interpret technical documentation including blueprints, isometrics, schematics, and P&IDs.
  • Valid National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) Certificate or equivalent training is preferred.
  • Basic familiarity with OSHA requirements pertaining to chemical production processes.
  • Practical skills in MS Word and MS Excel; ability to use digital timekeeping systems.

Additional Information

  • Location: Pasadena area
  • Job Type: Direct Hire/ Full-time
  • Schedule: Day | Monday- Friday
  • Salary: $34 – $45 an hour

How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $37/hr median for welding jobs in Pasadena, TX, whose middle half runs $31–$40/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 49 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 29 different employers. 17 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 596 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

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. Pasadena is among them.

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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 Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.