Maintenance / Locksmith Mechanic - 1st Shift - Bedford, TX
Location
Bedford, TX
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 23, 2026
Location
Bedford, TX
Wage
$24 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 23, 2026
Crothall Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, is seeking a Maintenance / Locksmith Mechanic for the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford location. The role involves performing a variety of maintenance and locksmith duties during the 1st Shift schedule.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 10% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $23–$38/hr across 416 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 37% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Bedford, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 548 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance / Locksmith Mechanic - 1st Shift - Bedford, TX figures were last recalculated when this page was built.