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Industrial Maintenance Welder Fabricator

Location

Navasota, TX

Wage

$41,897/yr

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG Welding
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Posted on September 28, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The Industrial Maintenance Welder Fabricator position involves performing various types of welding on ferrous and nonferrous metals, interpreting blueprints, and ensuring quality in finished products while adhering to safety protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Create quality welds according to blueprints and weld symbols
  • Prepare materials by grinding, drilling, milling, tapping, and cutting steel and aluminum parts
  • Lay out, position, align, fit, bolt, clamp, and tack-weld components for final welding
  • Set up and weld parts using applicable welding equipment
  • Change welding wire and gas tanks as needed
  • Perform arc and oxy-acetylene welding, cutting, and brazing using established procedures
  • Use geometry, arithmetic, structural design, and metal thickness calculations to complete fabrication work accurately
  • Maintain required production and welding documentation
  • Inspect completed welds for accuracy and quality standards
  • Perform additional work-related duties as assigned
  • Comply with all company policies, procedures, and safety requirements

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED preferred
  • Commercial welding experience required
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints required
  • Current and valid welding certification preferred
  • Welding school or vocational training preferred
  • Must pass the Grant Prideco welding test
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How this job compares in Navasota, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 16% below the $24/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$28/hr across 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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 Navasota, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Navasota, 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.

NOV currently has 6 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 and TIG 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.

See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

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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. Industrial Maintenance Welder Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.