Job Description

Overview

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, with over 20,000 employees. They are seeking Pipefitters for various locations in and around Pasadena, TX, to help increase plant production and reduce costs.

Responsibilities

  • Assembles and disassembles, erects and repairs boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers, and heaters according to blueprint specifications.
  • Locates and marks reference points for columns and plates on foundation.
  • Attaches rigging or signals crane operator to lift parts to specified position.
  • Aligns structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks, or vats.
  • Hammers, flame-cuts, files, or grinds irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together.
  • Bolts structures and sections together.
  • Positions drums and headers into supports or bolts supports to frame.
  • Aligns water tubes and connects and expands tube ends to drums and headers.
  • Bolts casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated parts to frame.
  • Installs trays in process towers.
  • Installs manholes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers.
  • Assists in testing assembled vessels.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience in specified skill depending on mechanic level.
  • 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.
  • Job site safety requirements as required by the client.
  • Safety equipment as required by the client.
  • TWIC card preferred.
  • NCCER highly preferred; if not certified, craft test required.

Additional Information

  • No per diem, ideal for candidates local to the area.
  • 40-50 hours plus, depending on location; must be available to work overtime as needed; schedule subject to change.

How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Pasadena, TX currently run a median of $36/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$40/hr across 11 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 Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 24 different employers. 11 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 562 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 (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). 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 Pasadena at $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. Pasadena is among them.

Similar openings near Pasadena, TX

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