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Overview

As a Maintenance Technician II, you will work in a team environment providing technical support to ensure a safe and efficient manufacturing process. Your role involves maintaining equipment, performing repairs, and troubleshooting various systems to produce high-quality products.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain manufacturing processes and equipment in optimum condition.
  • Provide technical support to ensure a safe environment and high-quality product.
  • Operate electrical, electronics, hydraulic, mechanical, and welding equipment.
  • Repair and replace building systems and various equipment components.
  • Inspect systems for compliance and perform preventative maintenance.
  • Troubleshoot issues across building systems, electrical, electronics, hydraulic, mechanics, pneumatic, and refrigeration.

Requirements

  • Experience in maintenance - Required
  • Experience in electrical/mechanical/equipment repair - Required
  • Experience disassembling and repairing process equipment - Required
  • Strong working knowledge of plant equipment maintenance - Required
  • Strong aptitude in industrial plant, mechanical, or electrical work - Required
  • HS Diploma or GED - Required

Additional Information

  • Travel by car or plane with overnight stays may be required.
  • Regularly lift up to 20 lbs and occasionally lift more.
  • Work extended hours and rotating schedules.
  • Work in various temperature-controlled environments.
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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.

H-E-B currently has 3 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. Maintenance Technician II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.