Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Technician role involves the installation, assembly, and repair of equipment and structures related to buildings, requiring skills in various trades and effective communication with customers and team members.

Responsibilities

  • Provide installation, assembly, and repair of equipment, piping, and structures without direct supervision.
  • Perform routine preventative maintenance and service.
  • Utilize a variety of power and hand tools to perform job functions.
  • Understand instructions and complete repairs and part replacements in a timely manner.
  • Work effectively with customers and other team members.
  • Submit daily work reports and maintain a written record of work performed.
  • Troubleshoot machinery.
  • Demonstrate hydraulic and electrical troubleshooting skills.
  • Interpret blueprints.

Requirements

  • 2 years experience in machinery and/or building maintenance.
  • Competency in one or more trades such as structural steel welding, pipefitting and plumbing, or millwright and machinery rigging.
  • Ability to calculate basic mathematical problems.
  • Ability to walk, stand, and lift for an extended period.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Maintain a valid driver's license.
  • Pass periodic observed drug screening.
  • Pass a criminal background check.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Daily travel expenses are paid in advance for out-of-town work.
  • Earned vacation time.
  • Paid holidays.
  • Employee Referral Compensation Program.
  • Remote location employment; locals may be considered for long-term assignments.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Atlanta, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Atlanta, GA currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$31/hr across 14 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 Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 40 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 31 different employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 246 other active welding openings from 161 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Mullins Mechanical (6), Aerotek (5), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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 $29/hr, Lithia Springs at $29/hr, and Marietta at $24/hr. Atlanta is among them.

Similar openings near Atlanta, GA

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.