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Overview

Jerry Dixon's Automotive and Klassic Kar Center is seeking a skilled technician to join their family team. This full-time position requires experience in carburetion and fuel injection technology, with a focus on classic car repairs and custom builds.

Responsibilities

  • Handle full custom builds for classic cars.
  • Install vintage air conditioning systems.
  • Replace wiring harnesses.
  • Build engines and perform suspension and brake conversions.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • 5+ years of automotive mechanical diagnosis, problem-solving, and repair experience.
  • High level of motivation, energy, and a customer-focused attitude.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Experience with repairs and upgrades on domestic classic cars from 1930-1990 is a must.
  • Experience with classic car performance upgrades, machinist, electrical, and metal fabrication is a plus.
  • General automotive repair experience is required.

Benefits

  • Paid vacations
  • Health Insurance
  • Vision
  • Dental

Additional Information

  • Full-time position Monday - Friday 7:00am-5:00pm.
  • Closed Saturdays and Sundays.
  • Located at 9206 Circle Drive, Austin, Texas 78736.
  • Hourly raises available following 6 weeks of employment based on performance.
  • 3 months of backlogged work in house now.

Benefits

Paid vacations
Health Insurance
Vision
Dental
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How this job compares in Austin, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Austin, TX currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$37/hr across 25 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 Austin, TX

We're tracking 30 other active welding openings in Austin, TX right now, from 10 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 976 other active welding openings from 439 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Austin, or widen the search to Texas.

Jerry Dixon's Automotive and Klassic Kar Center currently has 1 other opening 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 (33), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (22), and Zachry Group (21). 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 Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Pasadena at $36/hr, and Dallas at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. CLASSIC CAR REPAIR TECHNICIAN / MECHANIC / FABRICATOR NEEDED figures were last recalculated when this page was built.