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Job Description

Overview

This role focuses on welding and fabricating carbon steel pipe and vessel products in a high-output fabrication shop. The position involves fitting, welding, and finishing complex assemblies to print in a fast-paced, overtime-rich environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform flux core and TIG welding on pipe ranging from 1" to 23" outside diameter and 1/4" to 1/2" thick.
  • Work on a variety of large valves and vessel-like products.
  • Fit, weld, and finish complex assemblies to print.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of welding experience.
  • Proficiency in flux core welding & MIG on carbon steel pipe and related components.
  • OR proficiency in TIG welding on carbon steel pipe and vessel-type products.
  • Experience welding pipe from approximately 1" to 20" in diameter or similar vessel welding work.
  • Ability to perform backgouging and properly refill and finish weld grooves.
  • Strong pipe welding and vessel welding skills on carbon steel materials.
  • Ability to perform fitting work, including aligning and fitting shells, supports, legs, flanges, nozzles, and caps.
  • Capability to perform basic math for measurements, layout, and fabrication tasks.
  • Comfort working significant overtime, including 60+ hours per week and extended stretches of consecutive workdays.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • The work takes place in a clean, air-conditioned shop designed for heavy fabrication and welding.
  • This is an open-ended contract position expected to run through February, with the potential to continue longer depending on workload and new projects.
  • The schedule requires comfort with long hours and extended stretches of work, including working 13 days on and 1 day off when busy.
  • Day shift typically runs from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, with some Sundays as needed.
  • Night shift typically runs from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday, with some Sundays as needed.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 341 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% 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 Galena Park, TX

Galena Park, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. 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.

Aerotek currently has 9 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.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG, TIG, 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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