Job Description

Overview

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, seeking a Maintenance Technician to troubleshoot, repair, and maintain plant equipment to ensure safe and efficient production. The company values excellence and invests in talent to foster a performance-based culture.

Responsibilities

  • Respond promptly to equipment breakdowns and failures on the plant floor.
  • Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical, plumbing, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
  • Perform preventive maintenance on plant equipment safely and thoroughly.
  • Share knowledge with maintenance team members and support SQF, Lean, RBS, and MOS programs.
  • Communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Utilize the MP2 computerized maintenance work order system to track and manage tasks.
  • Perform physical tasks including frequent standing, walking, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
  • Work in varying temperatures and tolerate exposure to packaging materials, raw ingredients, cleaning chemicals, and lubricants.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Five (5) years’ experience as an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic in a manufacturing setting.
  • Working repair knowledge and capability of performing repairs of electrical, plumbing, conveyors, hydraulic, HVAC, PLC, refrigeration, motors/gearboxes.
  • Ability to read and understand schematics/blueprints.
  • Must be able to troubleshoot basic electrical circuits and logically diagnose machine problems.
  • Certification in a technical field preferred.
  • Candidate(s) must provide their own hand tools.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits program
  • Enrollment in wellness and employee assistance programs
  • Paid holidays
  • Vacation
  • Other competitive paid time off opportunities

Additional Information

  • This is a full-time permanent role.
  • Must have availability to work 2nd (2:00pm – 10:30pm) or 3rd shift (10:00pm - 6:30am) Sunday through Friday with occasional overtime on Saturdays.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits program
Enrollment in wellness and employee assistance programs
Paid holidays
Vacation
Other competitive paid time off opportunities

How this job compares in Forest Park, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 16% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 152 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Forest Park, GA

Forest Park, GA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 392 other active welding openings from 246 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Forest Park, or widen the search to Georgia.

TreeHouse Foods currently has 1 other opening 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 Atlanta at $30/hr, Marietta at $29/hr, and Lithia Springs at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.