Combination Welder (La Porte, TX ) - Austin Industrial

Austin-Industrial; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial in the United States is seeking a Journeyman Welder to join our crafts team. This role requires 3–5 years of journeyman welding experience, blueprint reading skills, and proficiency with welding equipment.

You will work on pipe and plate assemblies, ensuring weld quality and conformance to specifications. As a full-time, on-site position, expect a safety-focused environment, collaboration with a skilled team, and opportunities to contribute to major industrial projects across

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of journeyman welding experience.
• Ability to read blueprints and work orders.
• Experience with heat-related welding procedures and safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Weld or tack weld parts using spot, electric, or gas welding equipment.
• Assemble pipes, tanks, and metal components per layout and specs.
• Adjust gas/air flow to achieve required flame temperature and color.
• Preheat pieces and prepare weld joints; inspect finished work for defects.
• Assist in positioning, lifting, and securing metal assemblies as needed.

Skills

Welding

Blueprint reading

Safety awareness

Teamwork

Education

Journeyman Welding Certification

Tools

Welding equipment

Torch

Plasma cutting

Job description

Job Category: Craft

• Full-Time

Locations

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Description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services 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. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

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.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience – 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• 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).

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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.

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