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Overview

The Fabricator is responsible for making, repairing, adapting, and rectifying tools, dies, and other mechanical equipment with high precision under direct supervision. The role involves operating various mechanical tools and modifying dies to meet engineering changes.

Responsibilities

  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examines work pieces for defects and measures them to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Verifies conformance of work pieces to specifications using measuring tools.
  • Sets up and operates fabricating machines to bend, cut, form, punch, drill or assemble components.
  • Positions, aligns, fits, and welds parts to form complete units or subunits.
  • Welds components in various positions and may tack-weld fitted parts together.
  • Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
  • Keeps work area clean.
  • Studies engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.

Requirements

  • Typically requires a high school diploma or GED.
  • Knowledge of monitoring gauges, dials, or other indicators to ensure machine functionality.
  • Ability to read and understand work orders.
  • Knowledge of mathematics and its application.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Garland, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welder fabricator jobs across Texas currently run a median of $25/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $20–$28/hr across 32 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 Garland, TX

We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Garland, TX right now, from 10 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,132 other active welding openings from 498 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Garland, or widen the search to Texas.

Motion currently has 1 other opening 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 Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (30), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (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 Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Garland, TX

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.