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Overview

Johnson Controls is a global leader in thermal management and energy efficiency, providing solutions to help customers operate with precision and resilience. The Lead Welder oversees welding activities, ensuring quality workmanship and compliance with standards while providing technical leadership and training to other welders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate daily welding, fitting, and fabrication activities.
  • Perform and oversee welding operations using various approved processes.
  • Interpret and apply engineering drawings and specifications.
  • Verify proper fit-up, alignment, and weld preparation prior to welding.
  • Ensure all welds meet visual acceptance criteria and quality requirements.
  • Support production schedules while maintaining quality and safety standards.
  • Assist supervisors in assigning work and resolving production issues.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to welders.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • Minimum 5 years of welding and fabrication experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Minimum 2 years in a lead, mentor, or senior welder role.
  • Demonstrated experience welding carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
  • Ability to pass company welding qualification tests.
  • Strong blueprint reading and weld symbol interpretation skills.
  • Experience using precision measuring tools.
  • Proficient with manual and semi-automatic welding equipment.
  • Working knowledge of welding inspections and quality systems.
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How this job compares in San Antonio, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 28% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in San Antonio, TX — toward the top of a $28–$35/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 San Antonio, TX

We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in San Antonio, TX right now, from 10 different 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 1,256 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 San Antonio, or widen the search to Texas.

Johnson Controls currently has 2 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. 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. Lead Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.