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Job Description

Overview

Tradesmen International is hiring experienced Traveling Specialty Welders for projects in the Houston, TX area, offering a pay rate of $52-54/hour based on experience plus $105/day per diem for travelers over 60 miles from the job site. This position emphasizes safety, productivity, and superior craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out, align and weld fabricated, cast and forged components to assemble structural forms according to blueprints and metallurgy.
  • 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 various welding equipment.
  • Work from blueprints, sketches, and specifications.
  • Perform other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4 years of industrial construction/maintenance Flux Core welding experience.
  • Must pass a drug screen, hearing test, and a respirator fit test.
  • Must pass a weld test.

Benefits

  • Tradesmen+ Rewards Program
  • Vacation Pay
  • Health Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • This is a multiple shift opportunity.
  • Location: US-TX-HOUSTON

Benefits

Tradesmen+ Rewards Program
Vacation Pay
Health Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Lindale Park, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $53/hr, this posting sits about 89% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 385 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 95% 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 Lindale Park, TX

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lindale Park, 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 1,031 other active welding openings from 472 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

Tradesmen International, LLC 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 Austin Industries (30), 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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Pasadena at $38/hr, and Dallas at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for Flux-Core. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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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. Traveling Specialty Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.