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Job Description

Overview

Worley is a global company specializing in energy, chemicals, and resources, headquartered in Australia. The Combo Welder position involves laying out, aligning, and welding components to assemble structural forms according to blueprints and metallurgy.

Responsibilities

  • Install, modify, and make repairs to pipe, boilers, towers, exchangers, furnaces, and drums.
  • Set up equipment and weld either pipe, plate, or structural steel using arc, gas-shielded arc, or gas welding equipment.
  • Work from blueprints, sketches, and specifications.
  • Produce quality work with reasonable efficiency.
  • Perform simple piping installations and repairs.
  • Assist other mechanics.
  • Additional responsibilities not listed may be required.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4 years industrial construction/maintenance industry experience.
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How this job compares in La Porte, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$35/hr across 454 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in La Porte, TX

We're tracking 30 other active welding openings in La Porte, TX right now, from 13 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,288 other active welding openings from 594 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in La Porte, or widen the search to Texas.

Worley currently has 14 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 (31), 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. La Porte is among them.

Similar openings near La Porte, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Combo Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.