Mechanic - Industrial
Location
Wylie, TX
Wage
$25.94 – $38.39/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 6, 2026
Location
Wylie, TX
Wage
$25.94 – $38.39/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 6, 2026
North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) provides essential wholesale water, wastewater, and solid waste management services to over two million residents in North Texas. The Industrial Mechanic role involves performing skilled maintenance on various treatment and production equipment to ensure efficient operations.
At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 422 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 66% 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.
Wylie, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 561 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mechanic - Industrial figures were last recalculated when this page was built.