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Overview

DXP is dedicated to providing high-quality customer service through expertise in MROP products and services. The Welder - Structural position involves various welding techniques and responsibilities to support the company's industrial customers.

Responsibilities

  • Perform mig and flux-cored welding.
  • Weld carbon steel, steel, and stainless steel.
  • Receive instructions, prints, and work orders for the job.
  • Plan details of working procedure, tools, and material requirements.
  • Fabricate equipment by cutting, burning, and welding various metals.
  • Repair equipment using welding techniques and appropriate welding equipment.
  • Clean and prepare surfaces to be welded.
  • Set up, assemble, and tack weld parts.
  • Build up worn or defective surfaces.
  • Use burning equipment to dismantle assemblies and cut material to size and shape.
  • Keep equipment and work area clean and orderly.

Requirements

  • 5 years of welding experience.
  • Familiarity with iron worker, plasma cutter, pipe threader, and grinders.
  • Background check, physical, and drug test required.
  • Welding certificate.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Must be able to lift 50 lbs. unassisted.
  • Shop environment.
  • Day Shift, Monday through Friday 6am to 5pm.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Katy, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, structural welder jobs across Texas currently run a median of $33/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$35/hr across 22 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 7 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.

DXP Enterprises, Inc. currently has 2 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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