Job Description

Overview

The LSA Service Center Maintenance Technician is responsible for the repairs, adjustments, and ongoing maintenance of facilities, including operating a forklift and overhead crane for material handling. The role requires troubleshooting, conducting inspections, and maintaining records while adhering to safety procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain all equipment and facilities necessary to perform work
  • Fill out and maintain maintenance records, as required
  • Adhere to all safety procedures
  • Work both indoors and outdoors in all types of weather
  • Work flexible hours or shifts, including evenings and weekends with little or no supervision
  • Perform electrical, painting, and/or carpentry repairs of fixtures and equipment
  • Establish and maintain PMs on all equipment
  • Record written PM standards per document control process
  • Train Operators as needed to PM requirements
  • Operate forklift and overhead crane to load and unload material onto trucks
  • Process work orders from bills of lading
  • Package cut products
  • Ensure correct products are being loaded and unloaded by matching order numbers to printed tags
  • Perform preoperational safety checks on forklift and overhead crane
  • Follow safe job procedures including inspecting forklift, equipment and tools before operating
  • Move materials to and from storage or production areas using a forklift
  • Read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments or materials moving needs
  • Complete necessary paperwork when needed
  • Record information on a computer screen
  • Act as liaison with outside contractors
  • Label and package finished products
  • Double check parts before shipping
  • Band material and attach identifying tags
  • Assist in good housekeeping practices
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Must be a competent welder and torch operator
  • Must be familiar with mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical components
  • Able to disassemble, evaluate, repair and reassemble components back to manufacturer’s specifications
  • Must have basic computer, email, and printer skills
  • Basic Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Word, Excel)
  • Must be able to use tape measure, micrometer, caliper, and calculator
  • Spray paint use
  • Tablet use
  • Use company software to process work orders
  • Can work independently and in a team environment
  • Self-motivated and takes responsibility for own work
  • Must perform all duties while meeting safety protocols
  • High School diploma or equivalent, preferred
  • 1-2 years’ experience in operating a forklift, preferred

Additional Information

  • This position has some on-call and call-in requirements
  • Overtime will be contractually offered based on seniority

Benefits

Vision

How this job compares in Uptown, IN

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana, whose middle half runs $21–$29/hr across 67 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 55% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Uptown, IN

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Uptown, IN, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 130 other active welding openings from 103 employers. Browse welding jobs across Indiana.

The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (9), Forest River (4), and Lozier Corporation (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Indiana, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Indianapolis at $24/hr, Fort Wayne at $24/hr, and Middlebury at $21/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Uptown, IN

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