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Job Description

Overview

Helion is hiring a highly motivated MIG Welder to join their team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform production MIG welding using .052 wire
  • Weld at 27–30 amps with wire speeds around 400–500
  • Read and interpret blueprints and weld symbols
  • Weld structural steel components including joists, Ibeams, webbing, connection plates, stiffeners, and supporting brackets
  • Weld parts that have already been fit-up and prepared
  • Maintain quality welds while meeting production goals
  • Work effectively with a crew in a team-oriented environment

Requirements

  • Previous MIG welding experience in a production or structural steel environment
  • Ability to read blueprints and weld symbols
  • Pass 1G and 2G Unlimited Weld Test

Additional Information

  • Fast-paced manufacturing setting
  • Standing, lifting, and working around heavy steel throughout the shift
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How this job compares in Terrell, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for manufacturing welder jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $19–$33/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% 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 Terrell, TX

Terrell, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,009 other active welding openings from 474 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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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. Production MIG Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.