Job Description

Overview

Metalforms is a leading provider of heat transfer solutions along the Gulf Coast Region, committed to matching customer needs with valuable products and services. The Fitter role involves reading blueprints, cutting, threading, and welding pipes, requiring strong safety awareness and mechanical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect the workplace, clear obstructions, and prepare materials and equipment.
  • Study blueprints and plan pipe systems and related equipment installations.
  • Use a variety of tools to modify pipes to specifications.
  • Measure and mark pipes for cutting and threading.
  • Assemble and weld pipe components and systems.
  • Secure pipes to walls and fixtures using brackets, clamps, and welding equipment.
  • Repair and maintain pipe systems, supports, and related equipment.
  • Comply with relevant codes and regulatory standards.

Requirements

  • 2-5 years relevant work experience.
  • Ability to read blueprints.
  • Knowledge of tape measure and standard measurements.
  • Ability to perform degree finding.
  • Ability to divide circumference of welds.
  • Knowledge of overhead cranes and hand signals.
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills in safe rigging practices.
  • Must adhere to standards and perform a quality job in a safe manner.
  • Physical requirements include bending, squatting, climbing, stooping, twisting, and reaching, standing for long periods, and lifting up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Location: Beaumont, TX
  • Health benefits kick in fast – first of the month after 30 days.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$41/hr across 83 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 323 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 188 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 515 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 (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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