SHOP WELDER
Ector County Independent School District
MAINTENANCE SERVICES - ODESSA, Texas
Job Details
Job ID:5278867
Application Deadline:Jun 30, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)
Posted:Jul 9, 2025
Starting Date:Immediately
Job Description
Job Description: Shop Welder Wage/Hour Status: Nonexempt
Reports To: Grounds Foreman Pay Grade: 8
Dept./ School: Facilities Days: 247
Primary Purpose: The goal of the shop welder is to ensure timely, accurate and cost-effective completion of jobs and projects as assigned by the ground's foreman. Must maintain all shop tools and equipment, as well as the maintenance of the welding truck, tools and equipment. Maintains district maintenance white fleet.
Qualifications:
High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent
Have a valid Texas drivers license
Special Knowledge/Skills:
General knowledge of welding
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Able to troubleshoot, diagnose and repair company trucks.
Learn to estimate materials, order and obtain material as required, and inform supervisor of needs and requirements to complete each job.
Maintain accountability of tools, equipment, and supplies as assigned.
Learn to identify and resolve various repair problems to ensure proper job completion.
Maintain accurate records for proper completion of work orders (such as labor and material costs).
Maintain and demonstrate an attitude of quality service, and teamwork, and good public relations and communications with co-workers, supervisors, and district employees at the various facility sites.
Functions within the polices and administrative procedures of the Ector County Independent School District.
Be available for emergency call outs on evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Learn to read and interpret technical materials and specifications, including but not limited to construction documents, engineering reports and submittal data
Ability to communicate with a varied work force both professional and skilled labor
Ability to maintain good public relations and communications with co- workers, supervisors, and district officials as part of a team.
Performs all other tasks and duties as assigned
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 will be made if necessary
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, move throughout the room and/or facility
communicate verbally and electronically
use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl, climb, balance, and drive; Occasionally required to sit.
Regularly required to lift or exert force of up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The environmental characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high; Regularly exposed to such environmental conditions as moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, risk of electric shock.
Position Type:Full-Time
Salary:$20.25 to $27.97 Per Hour
Ector County Independent School District
MAINTENANCE SERVICES - ODESSA, Texas
Job Details
Job ID:5278867
Application Deadline:Jun 30, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)
Posted:Jul 9, 2025
Starting Date:Immediately
Job Description
Job Description: Shop Welder Wage/Hour Status: Nonexempt
Reports To: Grounds Foreman Pay Grade: 8
Dept./ School: Facilities Days: 247
Primary Purpose: The goal of the shop welder is to ensure timely, accurate and cost-effective completion of jobs and projects as assigned by the ground's foreman. Must maintain all shop tools and equipment, as well as the maintenance of the welding truck, tools and equipment. Maintains district maintenance white fleet.
Qualifications:
High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent
Have a valid Texas drivers license
Special Knowledge/Skills:
General knowledge of welding
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Able to troubleshoot, diagnose and repair company trucks.
Learn to estimate materials, order and obtain material as required, and inform supervisor of needs and requirements to complete each job.
Maintain accountability of tools, equipment, and supplies as assigned.
Learn to identify and resolve various repair problems to ensure proper job completion.
Maintain accurate records for proper completion of work orders (such as labor and material costs).
Maintain and demonstrate an attitude of quality service, and teamwork, and good public relations and communications with co-workers, supervisors, and district employees at the various facility sites.
Functions within the polices and administrative procedures of the Ector County Independent School District.
Be available for emergency call outs on evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Learn to read and interpret technical materials and specifications, including but not limited to construction documents, engineering reports and submittal data
Ability to communicate with a varied work force both professional and skilled labor
Ability to maintain good public relations and communications with co- workers, supervisors, and district officials as part of a team.
Performs all other tasks and duties as assigned
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 will be made if necessary
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, move throughout the room and/or facility
communicate verbally and electronically
use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl, climb, balance, and drive; Occasionally required to sit.
Regularly required to lift or exert force of up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The environmental characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high; Regularly exposed to such environmental conditions as moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, risk of electric shock.
Position Type:Full-Time
Salary:$20.25 to $27.97 Per Hour
Job ID: 484688771
Originally Posted on: 7/10/2025
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