Mechanic - Journey
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$39 – $47.55/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 24, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$39 – $47.55/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 24, 2026
Summit Midstream Corporation is a value-driven company focused on developing, owning, and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets in unconventional resource basins across the continental United States. The Mechanic - Journey position is responsible for the maintenance and technical repairs of gathering system compression and cryogenic plants.
At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 35% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $23–$41/hr middle band drawn from 92 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 80% 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.
We're tracking 344 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 194 different employers. 138 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 548 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to 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. Mechanic - Journey figures were last recalculated when this page was built.