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Job Description

Overview

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The Welder position involves working on day shifts with potential overtime, focusing on welding tasks within the Fortify Building Solutions business.

Responsibilities

  • Understand all safety rules and precautions necessary for working in a manufacturing environment.
  • Coordinate welder settings, gun speed/travel, and gas flow with the observed condition of the bead.
  • Read a tape measure and blueprints to shop standards.
  • Decide when adjustments or gun manipulation needs to be altered.
  • Determine how much and what repairs to make for pinholes and burn-through caused by an auto welder.
  • Train and teach proper welding procedures in accordance with manufacturing job procedures.
  • Operate overhead crane and other lifting equipment.
  • Maintain specified shapes, sizes, and penetrations of beads while ensuring product quality.
  • Keep numerical and alphabetical sequences correct.
  • Maintain continuous improvement practices in the work area.
  • May be assigned other projects and duties as designated by Team Leader.

Requirements

  • Associates degree or equivalent from a 2-year college or technical school, or 1 to 3 years of working experience in welding.
  • Ability to read blueprints and drawings.
  • Comprehend documents including policy manuals, safety rules/programs, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Effective communication skills in one-on-one and small group settings.
  • Perform general mathematical calculations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, percentages, and division.
  • Required to use power hand tools.
  • Required to drive a forklift.
  • Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Read different measuring devices such as tape measures, protractors, and micrometers.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on a continual basis above shoulder height and below the waist.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Base pay rate is $23.00 per hour.
  • Day Shift: 6:00AM - 2:30PM.
  • Site Address: 7301 Fairview Street, Houston, TX 77041.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 28% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, where the middle half runs $23–$41/hr across 78 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 335 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 185 different employers. 104 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,185 other active welding openings from 520 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.

Cornerstone Building Brands currently has 10 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 (33), and Worley (21). 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 $40/hr, Dallas at $39/hr, and Irving 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. Welder Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.