General Maintenance Technician
Location
Dallas, TX
Wage
$19 – $22/hr
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Dallas, TX
Wage
$19 – $22/hr
Posted on November 4, 2026
Amentum is seeking a General Maintenance Technician to join their operations & maintenance team in Grapevine, TX. This position involves providing intermediate expertise in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on building equipment in a commercial campus environment.
At roughly $21/hr, this posting comes in about 46% below the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $31–$39/hr across 42 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 122 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 68 different employers. 35 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,149 other active welding openings from 516 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.
Amentum 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), Zachry Group (28), and Worley (19). 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 Arlington at $39/hr, Dallas at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. Dallas is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. General Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.