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Overview

First Quality is a family-owned company with over 5,000 employees, producing high-quality personal care and household products. They are seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Technician for their First Quality Tissue SE facility in Anderson, SC, responsible for maintaining production equipment and ensuring safe operation.

Responsibilities

  • Understands and applies the principles and techniques of 'precision' maintenance.
  • Coordinates PM programs.
  • Notifies supervisor of potentially dangerous electrical/mechanical hazards and takes immediate corrective action.
  • Tests performance of electromechanical assemblies using test instruments such as electronic voltmeters.
  • Reads blueprints, schematics, diagrams, or technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly.
  • Installs and repairs equipment using soldering, welding, and hand tools.
  • Aligns, fits, or assembles component parts using hand or power tools, fixtures, templates, or microscopes.
  • Inspects parts for surface defects.
  • Analyzes and records test results, and prepares written testing documentation.
  • Verifies part dimensions or clearances to ensure conformance to specifications using precision measuring instruments.
  • Operates metalworking machines to fabricate housings, jigs, fittings, or fixtures.
  • Repairs, reworks, or calibrates hydraulic or pneumatic assemblies or systems to meet operational specifications or tolerances.
  • Trains others to repair, use, or maintain robots.
  • May assist engineers in testing and troubleshooting robotics equipment.
  • Uses CMMS Maintenance System to document work orders and procure parts.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Minimum 3 years functional experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of Associates degree and experience in a related field required.
  • Highly-qualified candidates would possess a technical degree or apprenticeship certification and maintenance experience in the paper industry or similar manufacturing environment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Must be able to work 12.5 hour swing shifts.
  • Location: Anderson, SC.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Anderson, SC

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 58% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina — toward the top of a $22–$33/hr middle band drawn from 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 91% 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 Anderson, SC

Anderson, SC currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 102 other active welding openings from 77 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Anderson, or widen the search to South Carolina.

The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Keel (3), and ORION (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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