Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician (NASA CMC)
Location
Webster, TX
Wage
$40/hr
Posted on September 28, 2026
Location
Webster, TX
Wage
$40/hr
Posted on September 28, 2026
Leidos is seeking an Engineering Technician to support the Cargo Mission Contract (CMC) and a growing portfolio of NASA and commercial customer work. The technician will provide technical support in various engineering areas including research, design, development, testing, and process improvement.
At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 43% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 476 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Webster, 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 1,322 other active welding openings from 610 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
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 $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician (NASA CMC) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.