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Job Description

Overview

Optimized Process Designs, LLC (OPD) is seeking a Welder Helper for their shop in Katy, TX. OPD specializes in engineering and construction services for the natural gas, natural gas liquids, and petrochemical industries, and is known for its commitment to safety, integrity, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Assist the welder with ensuring all materials required for welding are available.
  • Help the welder with setting up and moving the rig between work areas.
  • Adjust temperature on the welding machine as directed by the welder.
  • Clean welds using a buffer or grinder.
  • Familiarize with different types of metals.
  • Clean the work area and restock supplies and materials as necessary.
  • Operate tools and equipment such as beveling machines, cut-off grinders, hammers, torches, magnetic drills, welding machines, and a Saw-Zall.
  • Work safely and accurately.

Requirements

  • Willing and able to work shifts up to 12 hours per day and 7 days per week.
  • Able and willing to attend mandatory safety meetings.
  • Meet all physical requirements.
  • Know how to clean welds with a buffer or grinder for the welder.
  • 6 months' previous experience as a welder helper.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: Katy, TX

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Katy, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder helper jobs across Texas currently run a median of $18/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $16–$21/hr across 9 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 Katy, TX

Katy, TX currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,287 other active welding openings from 583 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Katy, or widen the search to Texas.

Optimized Process Designs LLC currently has 13 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 (35), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (25), and Zachry Group (22). 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 Abernathy at $45/hr, Arlington at $40/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Katy, TX

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