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Overview

The Industrial Maintenance Welder Fabricator position involves performing various welding techniques on both ferrous and nonferrous metals, ensuring quality and safety in compliance with company policies.

Responsibilities

  • Create quality welds according to blueprints and weld symbols
  • Prepare materials by grinding, drilling, milling, tapping, and cutting steel and aluminum parts
  • Lay out, position, align, fit, bolt, clamp, and tack-weld components for final welding
  • Set up and weld parts using applicable welding equipment
  • Change welding wire and gas tanks as needed
  • Perform arc and oxy-acetylene welding, cutting, and brazing using established procedures
  • Use geometry, arithmetic, structural design, and metal thickness calculations to complete fabrication work accurately
  • Maintain required production and welding documentation
  • Inspect completed welds for accuracy and quality standards
  • Perform additional work-related duties as assigned
  • Comply with all company policies, procedures, and safety requirements

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED preferred
  • Commercial welding experience required
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints required
  • Current and valid welding certification preferred
  • Welding school or vocational training preferred
  • Must pass the Grant Prideco welding test
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How this job compares in Navasota, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Texas currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $20–$28/hr across 39 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 Navasota, TX

Navasota, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 953 other active welding openings from 418 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.

NOV currently has 3 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 (24), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (23). 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 Channelview at $32/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. Industrial Maintenance Welder Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.