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Job Description

Overview

The primary purpose of this position is to plan, lay out, fabricate, modify, repair, assemble, and install sheet metal parts, items, and assemblies while performing welding work.

Responsibilities

  • Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders.
  • Develops patterns, cuts, forms, joins, assembles, and installs items and systems with combined straight and curved edges.
  • Welds commonly used metals in connection with the construction and restoration of sheet metal products.
  • Performs sheet metal mechanic duties safely, utilizing safety practices and complying with established safety rules.
  • Operates and maintains complex hand and power tools and equipment for fabrication and repair.
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How this job compares in Lackland AFB, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 395 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 81% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Lackland AFB, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lackland AFB, 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 1,025 other active welding openings from 477 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Air Education and Training Command currently has 1 other opening 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.

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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. SHEET METAL MECHANIC (WELDER) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.