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Overview

Dover Food Retail (DFR) is a leading manufacturer in the refrigeration and food equipment industry, focusing on innovative solutions for food safety and merchandising. The Piper II role involves laying out and installing refrigeration piping and components, ensuring systems run effectively without leaks.

Responsibilities

  • Lay out and install refrigeration piping and components.
  • Install pipe on manufacturing units.
  • Fabricate piping and materials.
  • Assemble systems and ensure they are running effectively and do not leak.
  • Pass Piper II test and have experience with all job requirements of a Piper I.
  • Work with all components of piping systems, including brackets, clamps, and hangers.
  • Study drawings and plan installation based on production standards.
  • Measure, cut, bend, assemble, and install copper and steel tubing.
  • Install refrigeration valves, tubing, and fastening in place.
  • Cut and braze refrigeration components.
  • Pressurize and leak check units.
  • Understand production standards and proper shipping techniques.
  • Handle advanced systems piping and mechanical layout of secondary and CO2 systems.
  • Install pipes for oil reservoir.
  • Assist with training of Piper I.
  • Use tools such as tube cutters, hand vise, power benders, files, flaring/swedging tools, and torch.

Requirements

  • One-year certificate from college or technical school, or one year related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work arrangement is onsite.
  • Location: Conyers, GA.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Conyers, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Georgia currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$35/hr across 153 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Conyers, GA

We're tracking 17 other active welding openings in Conyers, GA right now, from 11 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 392 other active welding openings from 246 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Conyers, or widen the search to Georgia.

Dover Food Retail currently has 4 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (8), Mullins Mechanical (6), and Yancey Bros. Co. (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $30/hr, and Marietta at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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