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Job Description

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider that offers strategic talent solutions. The MWD Assembler position involves assembling and testing products for an oilfield services company, which is the world’s largest offshore drilling company.

Responsibilities

  • Assemble components of all Product Lines.
  • Select correct tools and fixtures.
  • Test assembled products.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve problems associated with the assembly and testing of products.
  • Ensure ability to read blueprints.
  • Identify components.
  • Use pertinent hand tools and rework techniques.
  • Operate equipment.
  • Dimension and set tolerances of mechanical parts and assemblies.
  • Create labor records for all transactions.
  • Use the guiding principles and tools of the Manufacturing System to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience.
  • High School / Technical School education.
  • Proficient in soldering down to component level.
  • Ability to read procedures.
  • IPC 610 certification.

Additional Information

  • Location: Sugar Land, TX 77478
  • Duration: 12 Months
  • Job Type: Temporary Assignment
  • Work Type: Onsite
  • Shift Timings: Monday - Friday (6am-2:30 pm or 7am-3:30 pm)
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How this job compares in Sugar Land, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 16% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 476 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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 Sugar Land, TX

Sugar Land, TX currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 610 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Sugar Land, or widen the search to 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.

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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. MWD Assembler figures were last recalculated when this page was built.