Field Crane Technician
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$25 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Houston, TX
Wage
$25 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
MGX Field Crane Technicians are responsible for the inspection, diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of various crane equipment including mobile cranes and boom trucks. This position will be located at the Houston, TX branch for MGX Equipment Services and reports to the Service Manager.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, whose middle half runs $23–$41/hr across 82 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Crane Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.