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Job Description

Overview

Join a growing company that manufactures premium custom heavy-haul trailers and equipment supporting the construction, energy, and national defense industries. This position offers a stable first-shift schedule with opportunities for overtime and involves advanced welding skills in a team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

  • Use and develop advanced welding skills, including MIG welding on heavy-gauge carbon steel.
  • Gain experience in flux core, stainless steel, and TIG welding.
  • Fabricate large-scale trailer projects from start to finish in small groups.
  • Read blueprints, fit, assemble, and perform structural welding.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Gatesville, TX.
  • Work a stable first-shift schedule with a 48-hour Monday through Friday workweek.
  • Daily safety meetings and quality-driven processes.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Gatesville, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$35/hr across 380 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Gatesville, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Gatesville, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,009 other active welding openings from 475 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Aerotek currently has 5 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Flux-Core work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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. Welder.pay-20.29$-26.37$/hr. APPLYNOW figures were last recalculated when this page was built.