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Overview

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. They have been an industry leader for more than 60 years, offering single-source solutions in various industries including oil, gas, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Uses spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
  • Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.
  • Reaches expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
  • Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.
  • Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
  • Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
  • Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
  • Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
  • Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
  • Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
  • Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
  • Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.
  • Valid Driver's License.

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How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$35/hr across 381 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 La Porte, TX

We're tracking 21 other active welding openings in La Porte, TX right now, from 9 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,009 other active welding openings from 475 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.

Austin Industrial currently has 2 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 Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), Austin Industries (26), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21). 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, Pasadena at $36/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near La Porte, TX

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