Maintenance Tech - Mechanical III
Location
Lancaster, TX
Wage
$34 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 24, 2026
Location
Lancaster, TX
Wage
$34 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 24, 2026
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging, committed to sustainability and providing a diverse range of products. The Maintenance Tech will troubleshoot and conduct repairs and preventive maintenance for injection molding machines and support equipment.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 24% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$38/hr middle band drawn from 416 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Lancaster, TX is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 548 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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 Tech - Mechanical III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.