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Sandblaster

Valmont Industries, Inc.

Houston, TXFull-time$20.5/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$20.5/hr
Location
Houston, TX
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Valmont Industries is hiring a Sandblaster in its Houston production department to apply CorroCote to structural steel and other products. The role involves preparing and operating blasting equipment, directing abrasive flow over parts, and checking finished work against specifications. The position is full-time on the second shift, Monday through Friday, from 4:00 p.m. to 12:45 a.m.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Sandblasting Equipment OperationAbrasive BlastingBlueprint InterpretationAttention to DetailLiftingStoopingReachingPullingStandingPushingGrasping

Qualifications

Six Months Sandblasting ExperienceGalvanizing or Coating Facility Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Houston TX

Full time

R29287

6123 Cunningham Rd Houston Texas 77041

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

Available Shift: 2nd Shift, Monday - Friday from 4:00pm to 12:45am.

Compensation : $20.50 per hour + $1.50 Shift Differential per hour = $22.00 per hour

Welcome to Valmont, where a world of opportunity awaits. When you join our team, you become part of a passionate group dedicated to changing lives and conserving resources around the globe.

We want problem solvers who roll up their sleeves to foster progress and innovation for all people.

At Valmont, we provide infrastructure, irrigation, tubing and coatings to the world. We strengthen cities. We nourish croplands, we design, manufacture and coat products. Our products and services make a difference.

Join us and BUILD YOUR WORLD.

How You Will Contribute

Valmont is currently seeking a highly motivated and talented individual for the Sandblaster position in the Production department. We are looking for a highly driven individual that will assist with the application of CorroCote which offers superior protection for direct-embedded structural steel, transmission poles, and cellular towers. Must have keen attention to detail and understand the importance of the quality of product we provide to our customers.

Additionally, you will:

  • Shovels or pours abrasives such as sand, grit, or shot of specified grade into machine hopper.

  • Adjusts valves on equipment to regulate pressure and composition of abrasive mixture flowing through nozzle.

  • Starts equipment that directs blast or flow of abrasive-laden compressed air, over surface of parts.

  • Directs nozzle over surface of large parts until prescribed areas are thoroughly abraded to specification.

  • Reads and interprets blueprints and lays out area for blasting; examines finished parts to ensure conformance to specifications.

What It Takes

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum six months experience of sand or shot blasting in a metals production operation.

  • Must be skilled and proficient in setting and operating sandblasting equipment.

  • Must understand the process and its requirements, with a knowledge of how the blasting material abrades surfaces to remove adhering scale, sand, paint, grease, tar, rust, and dirt to meet the specified finish for final coating.

  • Must understand containment requirements as established by the EPA and the company.

  • Must be able to work in noisy, high-temperature conditions.

  • Repetitive lifting (up to 50 lbs. on occasion), stooping, reaching, pulling, standing, pushing, and grasping are required.

  • Must be a person of passion and integrity who has the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results.

Highly qualified candidates will also possess:

  • Experience in a galvanizing/coating production facility.

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

  • Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision).

  • 401k retirement plan with company match.

  • Paid time off.

  • Employer paid life insurance.

  • Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave.

  • Work Life Support.

  • Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.

  • Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more.

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

  • Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

  • 401k retirement plan with company match

  • Paid time off

  • Employer paid life insurance

  • Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

  • Work Life Support

  • Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

  • Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email [email protected].

Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology.

Valmont serves two primary markets — agriculture and infrastructure — and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries.

That’s what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world.

  • That’s the value we add.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,028 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$20.5/hr
  • Texas median$19/hr26 hourly ranges
  • US median$20–22/hr921 hourly ranges

This rate, $20.50/hr, is 6% above the Texas median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the middle half of Production hourly ranges in Texas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 133 open Production jobs in Texas and 2,028 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Production postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 623 postings).
Education
122 of the 2,028 open Production jobs (6%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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