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Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Fitter and Welder position involves welding and fitting skills, with a base pay rate of $23.00 per hour and the potential for overtime.

Responsibilities

  • Competent in welding and fitting skills for various certifications.
  • Fit up all types of rigid frame columns, rafters, and beam canopies according to specifications.
  • Understand safety rules and precautions in a manufacturing environment.
  • Achieve and maintain AWS and CWB certifications.
  • Check work assignments and interpret blueprints and sketches.
  • Measure, mark, count, and locate components in an assembly.
  • Advise Team Leader of discrepancies or shortages of required parts.
  • Position sub-assemblies using clamping devices and material handling equipment.
  • Use tools and measuring devices to join parts according to blueprints.
  • Weld components in place using various equipment.
  • Install metal tags to identify parts and use personal identification stamps.
  • Maintain numerical and alphabetical sequences.
  • Practice continuous improvement in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects or duties by Team Leader.

Requirements

  • Associates degree or equivalent from a 2-year College or technical school.
  • 1 to 3 years of working experience in welding or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Comprehend documents including policy manuals and safety rules.
  • Effective communication skills in one-on-one and small group settings.
  • Perform general mathematical calculations.
  • Required to use power hand tools.
  • Required to drive a forklift.
  • Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Read different measuring devices.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds continuously.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Site Address: 7301 Fairview Street, Houston, TX 77041.
  • Day Shift: 6:00AM - 2:30PM, with potential for overtime.
  • Shifts can be 8, 10, or 12 hours long depending on work orders.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 28% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $23–$41/hr across 82 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 323 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 189 different employers. 74 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,149 other active welding openings from 516 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.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 10 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 (28), and Worley (19). 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 Arlington at $39/hr, Dallas at $36/hr, and Pasadena at $36/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. Fitter and Welder Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.