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Overview

The Welder Day Shift position involves performing welding tasks in a manufacturing environment, ensuring safety and quality standards are met while operating welding equipment and training others in proper procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Understand safety rules and precautions for a manufacturing environment.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed/travel, and gas flow based on bead conditions.
  • Read tape measures and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide when to adjust or manipulate the gun.
  • Determine repairs for pin holes and burn-through from an auto welder.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures according to manufacturing standards.
  • Operate overhead cranes and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified shapes, sizes, and penetrations of beads while ensuring product quality.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Maintain continuous improvement practices in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects and duties by the Team Leader.

Additional Information

  • Base pay rate is $23.00 per hour.
  • Day Shift: 6:00AM - 2:30PM.
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, whose middle half runs $22–$33/hr across 63 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 230 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 129 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 953 other active welding openings from 418 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 4 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. Welder Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.