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Overview

Cleaver Brooks Sales and Service is seeking a Tube Bender/Welder in Dallas, TX, responsible for tube bending and welding while ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. The role requires teamwork, communication skills, and an understanding of maintenance and job scopes.

Responsibilities

  • Set up, adjust and operate tube bending machinery and equipment.
  • Fabricate directly from drawings, samples, or instructions without supervision.
  • Select all layouts, templates, or check fixtures.
  • Develop layouts from drawings, samples or instructions.
  • Select all tools, dies, and plane gauge requirements.
  • Check bent parts to drawing specification and tolerance using proper measurement and inspection equipment.
  • Inspect end product from bending operation to ensure accuracy.
  • Identify, properly tag and remove non-conforming materials.
  • Complete all required paperwork in a correct and timely manner.
  • Perform first article runs and communicate recommendations as appropriate.
  • Operate hoist, cart caddy, fork lift, and manual pallet jack.
  • Communicate with other departments as necessary.
  • Maintain the work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition.
  • Perform additional duties or special projects as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent is mandatory.
  • At least three years’ experience in a similar industrial/technical position.
  • Tig welding experience.
  • Ability to work within precise limits or standards of accuracy.
  • Make decisions based on measurable criteria.
  • Visualize objects in three dimensions from plans and drawings.
  • Computer competency including Outlook, Word, Excel.
  • Basic understanding of HVAC industry terminology is a plus.

Benefits

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

Benefits

Competitive salary
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Dallas, TX currently run a median of $36/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $29–$39/hr across 44 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 125 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 74 different employers. 42 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 549 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

Cleaver-Brooks 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 (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). 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, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. Dallas is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. 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.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

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