Commercial Maintenance Technician
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$23.8 – $28/hr
Posted on September 8, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$23.8 – $28/hr
Posted on September 8, 2026
The Commercial Maintenance Technician is responsible for repairing and maintaining various machinery and mechanical equipment, including conveyor systems, HVAC equipment, and general facility upkeep. This role requires a minimum of three years of experience in industrial or building maintenance and involves performing both routine and preventative maintenance tasks.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA, where the middle half runs $26–$50/hr across 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 26% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 119 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 86 different employers. 58 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 444 other active welding openings from 281 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 Marathon (10), Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (7), and Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7). 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 $33/hr, and Conyers at $31/hr. Atlanta is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Commercial Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.