Aircraft Mechanic - Customs and Border Protection
Location
San Angelo, TX
Wage
$44.08/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 10, 2026
Location
San Angelo, TX
Wage
$44.08/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 10, 2026
The CBP Aircraft Mechanic is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and modifying aircraft structures and components. This role requires technical expertise to solve equipment malfunctions and perform maintenance on various aircraft systems.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 57% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$36/hr middle band drawn from 439 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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.
San Angelo, TX currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 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 San Angelo, or widen the search to Texas.
Amentum currently has 9 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Aircraft Mechanic - Customs and Border Protection figures were last recalculated when this page was built.