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Overview

Core & Main, based in St. Louis, is a leader in advancing reliable infrastructure with a focus on water, wastewater, storm drainage, and fire protection products. The Fabricator role involves providing technical support and performing skilled work in the design, installation, testing, calibration, maintenance, and repair of products.

Responsibilities

  • Provides expertise related to product implementation and continued service.
  • Provides technical solutions and design implementations for products and services.
  • Builds, tests, troubleshoots, repairs and modifies equipment, parts, components and assemblies.
  • Analyzes and interprets test data.
  • Evaluates performance and reliability of materials.
  • Performs routine analysis and calculation and recommends changes.
  • Diagnoses and reports malfunctions.
  • Learns and understands particular technical equipment; attends training and completes certification as required.

Requirements

  • 2-year technical degree.
  • HS Diploma or GED strongly preferred.
  • Specialized skills training/certification may be required.
  • Generally, 2-5 years of experience in area of responsibility.
  • Must be a minimum of 18 years of age or older.
  • Must pass pre-employment assessment(s) if applicable.

Additional Information

  • Usually in a comfortable environment but with regular exposure to factors causing moderate physical discomfort from such things as dust, fumes, or odors.
  • Typically requires overnight travel more than 50% of the time.
  • Must continuously stand or walk or regularly requires lifting/handling/carrying material or equipment of moderate weight (8-20 pounds).
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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 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.

Core & Main currently has 7 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. Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.