Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Houston, TX) Temp

Austin Industries, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 44,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial, a leading industrial services provider, seeks a Combination Welder for our Houston, TX site. This temp role requires welding expertise to join metal parts per blueprints and procedures, with responsibility spanning setup, welding, cutting, and crane coordination.

Applicants must have a minimum of 4 years Journeyman-level experience, relevant welding certifications, and legal work authorization in the United States. On-site work environment with safety as a priority.

Qualifications

• 4 years of Journeyman-level welding experience.
• Commitment to safety and quality in industrial settings.
• Ability to read blueprints and welding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Welds and tack welds pieces using spot, electric, or gas welding equipment.
• Joins pipes from torch to tanks, operates valves for gas mixtures.
• Preheats work pieces and prepares welding surfaces per procedures.
• Inspects welds and measures parts to meet specifications.
• Goes on ladders or scaffolds to access work pieces.
• Provides signals for crane operations when moving heavy pieces.
• Operates cutting equipment to dismount metal assemblies.
• Follows safety policies and reports any issues.

Skills

Journeyman-level experience

Education

TWIC Card

8-8-B-1 GTAW

1-1-A-3 SMAW

1-1-BA-2 GTAW/SMAW

23-23-B GTAW

Valid Driver's License

Job description

Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Houston, TX) Temp

Job Category: Hourly Craft

Requisition Number: COMBI034688

• Posted : October 13, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site
• Rate : $39 USD per hour

Locations

Showing 1 location

Houston, TX, USA

Description

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

This person must be able to join metal parts, such as pipe or metal plates as specified by layout, blueprints, work orders, welding procedures or oral instructionsthrough the application of heat or electric arc-welding equipment. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
• Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.
• Reaching expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
• Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.
• Fillsholes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
• Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
• Climbsup ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
• Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
• Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
• In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
• Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
• Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience:– 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.

Certifications/ Licenses: A Weld Test, a Valid Driver’s License, and a TWIC Card.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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Qualifications

Experience

Required

4 years:

4 years:

4 years of Journeyman level experience.

Licenses & Certifications

Required

TWIC Card

1-1-A-3 SMAW

8-8-B-1 GTAW

1-1-BA-2 GTAW/SMAW

23-23-B GTAW

Valid Driver's License

Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.