Maintenance Mechanic
Location
Galena Park, TX
Wage
$37.16/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Galena Park, TX
Wage
$37.16/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
The Maintenance Mechanic is responsible for safely maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing production equipment throughout the facility, performing various maintenance activities to support efficient plant operations. Shell, with over 11,000 employees, has been delivering secure energy supplies across America for more than 100 years.
At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $25–$38/hr middle band drawn from 348 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% 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.
Galena Park, TX currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,149 other active welding openings from 515 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Galena Park, 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.