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Job Description

Overview

Stevens Transport/Paragon Leasing, LP fully services heavy-duty commercial tractors and trailers out of their Dallas, Texas terminal and is hiring Truck Body Technicians to perform various major and minor structural repairs on diesel trucks, including frames, fiberglass, and sheet metal replacement. Multiple shifts are available.

Responsibilities

  • Collision repair
  • Fabrication and welding
  • Bondo work
  • Installation and alignment of cab components
  • Repairing damage to fiberglass, composites, steel, and aluminum
  • Windshield replacements
  • Priming, sealing, and painting
  • Replacing fenders, panels, bumpers, and other body parts

Requirements

  • You must have your own tools
  • 4+ years doing Bondo work
  • 4+ years in collision repair
  • Collision repair certification a plus
  • Preferred collision repair experience on Kenworth, Freightliner, and Peterbilt trucks
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Dallas, TX currently run a median of $35/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$40/hr across 49 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Dallas, TX

We're tracking 124 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 74 different employers. 50 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 Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

Stevens Transport currently has 8 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.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Truck Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.