Structural Welder (Deer Park, TX) - Austin Industrial

Austin External; Deer Park (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial in Deer Park, TX, is seeking a Journeyman Welder to join our industrial maintenance team. You will read blueprints and work orders to assemble steel components using multiple arc welding processes.

Responsibilities include welding with GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW, and SMAW, joining pipes and fittings, preheating, finishing welds, and upholding safety standards. Candidates should have 2–4 years of journeyman experience and be able to work in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Journeyman level experience (2–4 years).
• Proficient in interpreting blueprints and work orders.
• Commitment to safety procedures and quality workmanship.

Responsibilities

• Use GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW, SMAW welding processes.
• Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas; adjust valves.
• Preheat pieces for welding or curving with a torch.
• Select weld locations based on type, thickness, and temperature.

Tools

Gas-Metal Arc (GMAW)

Flux-Cored Arc (FCAW)

Gas-Tungsten Arc (GTAW)

Submerged Arc (SAW)

Shielded Metal Arc (SMAW)

Job description

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: STRUC034462

• Posted : October 5, 2026
• Full-Time

Locations

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Description

About Austin Industrial

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 steel components or metal plates using 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 Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
• 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.
• manually apply filler rod to supply weld metal. May clean or degrease weld joint or workplace, using wire brush, portable grinder, or chemical bath.
• remove excess weld, defective weld material, slag and spatter, using carbon arc gouge, hand scrapper, grinder or power chipper.
• Climbsup ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience – 2-4 years of Journeyman level experience.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.

Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

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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