Job Description

Overview

The Mundy Companies, a leader in industrial maintenance, services, and construction, is currently hiring a Boilermaker in the Baytown, Texas area. The position offers a competitive wage and requires candidates to have experience in a petrochemical, industrial, or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform maintenance and install equipment related to various types of towers, heat exchangers, heaters, and plant piping to blueprint specifications.
  • Read blueprints to determine locations and relationships of parts.
  • Drill and tap holes for installation of studs.
  • Tighten bolts to assemble frames using power or hand wrenches.
  • Bolt or screw accessories such as manholes, hand holes, fans, gauges, and valves to vessels.
  • Replace defective parts using power wrenches, prying bars, or hand tools.
  • Perform general piping work such as line breaking, installing blinds, gaskets, valves, couplings, and other fittings.
  • Install equipment internals, packings, catalysts, and desiccants in vessels.
  • Perform basic rigging if necessary, along with other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Continuous and current experience as a Boilermaker in a petrochemical, industrial, or manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to help with other crafts, such as Scaffold Builder.
  • Craft certification or ability to pass a craft test.
  • Ability to pass a criminal background check and pre-employment drug screen.
  • Strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to follow written and verbal instructions in a safe, efficient manner.
  • Clear and concise communication skills, both orally and in writing.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Health Insurance

Additional Information

  • Work days spent mostly outdoors, may include extreme hot or cold weather conditions.
  • Physical demands may include climbing about machinery, climbing ladders, catwalks, and scaffolding, and medium carrying (exerting 20-50 pounds of force frequently).
  • Must be able to wear respiratory protective equipment.

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance

How this job compares in Baytown, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 13% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$37/hr middle band drawn from 364 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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.

The local market in Baytown, TX

We're tracking 60 other active welding openings in Baytown, TX right now, from 23 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,145 other active welding openings from 526 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Baytown, 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), Zachry Group (28), and Worley (18). 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, Dallas at $36/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Baytown, TX

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