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Overview

The Fabricator works under direct supervision to make, repair, adapt, and rectify tools, dies, and other mechanical equipment with high precision. This role involves interpreting blueprints and consulting specifications while operating various mechanical tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
  • Examines work pieces for defects and measures them to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Verifies conformance of work pieces to specifications using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
  • Sets up and operates fabricating machines to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble components.
  • Positions, aligns, fits, and welds parts to form complete units or subunits following blueprints and layout specifications.
  • Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions and may tack-weld fitted parts together.
  • Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
  • Keeps work area clean.
  • Studies engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.

Requirements

  • Typically requires a high school diploma or GED.
  • Knowledge of monitoring gauges, dials, or other indicators to ensure machines are working properly.
  • Ability to read and understand work orders.
  • Knowledge of mathematics and its application.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Plano, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Texas currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$28/hr across 41 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 Plano, TX

Plano, TX currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,287 other active welding openings from 582 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Plano, or widen the search to Texas.

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 Plano, TX

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