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Overview

We are seeking a Certified Welder with fitting experience to fabricate, assemble, and repair metal components in South Fort Worth, TX. This role involves a high volume of custom orders, requiring strong layout, fitting, and welding skills to complete work according to welding diagrams and work orders.

Responsibilities

  • Read layouts, welding diagrams, and work orders for custom fabrication projects.
  • Measure, lay out, align, fit, and tack-weld components to meet custom order specifications.
  • Set up equipment and perform arc and gas welding, brazing, and cutting as required.
  • Inspect welds, finish surfaces, and repair metal components to meet specifications.
  • Work with fitters on assembly and maintain clean work areas, tools, and equipment.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent and Certified Welder credential.
  • 2-5 years' experience.
  • Fitting experience required, including layout, alignment, and fit-up of metal components for custom orders.
  • Hands-on welding and fabrication experience; proficiency with thermal cutting equipment, power tools, and jigs.
  • Ability to follow written instructions and perform measurements and basic math using fractions and decimals.
  • Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and flexibility with changing production needs.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-term Disability
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift: 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location: South Fort Worth, TX 76140

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-term Disability
401k
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How this job compares in Fort Worth, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welding jobs in Fort Worth, TX, whose middle half runs $23–$25/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% 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 Fort Worth, TX

We're tracking 21 other active welding openings in Fort Worth, TX right now, from 13 different employers. 3 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 Fort Worth, or widen the search to Texas.

Adecco US, Inc. 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. Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.