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Job Description

Overview

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, with over 20,000 employees across the United States. They are seeking Combination Welders for the Pasadena, TX area to help increase plant production and reduce costs.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms.
  • Select equipment and plan layout, assembly, and welding.
  • Position, align, and fit components together; secure parts for welding.
  • Set up equipment and weld parts using various processes.
  • Assemble parts by bolting and riveting as needed.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts.
  • Use cutting torch to cut materials and demo existing assemblies.

Requirements

  • Minimum four (4) years of experience in specified skill.
  • Written pre-employment qualification test.
  • Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation.
  • Hazard Communication orientation/test.
  • Turner Industries Group, LLC indoctrination.
  • OSHA approved corrective eyewear (Z87).
  • Job site orientation and safety requirements as required by the client.

Additional Information

  • No per diem; ideal for candidates local to the area.
  • 40-50 hours plus; schedules subject to change depending on location.
  • Must pass weld test and safety council.
  • Must be available to work under fresh air.
  • Drug test and employment physical required.
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How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Pasadena, TX — toward the top of a $31–$40/hr middle band drawn from 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 46 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 25 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 611 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

Turner Industries currently has 8 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 Austin Industries (32), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (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 San Angelo at $39/hr, La Porte at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. Pasadena is among them.

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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. Combination Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.