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Overview

Clorox is seeking a qualified Mechanical Technician for their Atlanta West facility to maintain and troubleshoot automated packaging equipment. The role emphasizes safety, technical proficiency, and effective communication to ensure reliable manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Follow all Clorox Plant safety rules.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical and electrical faults.
  • Perform preventive maintenance (PMs).
  • Ensure stock of critical spares.
  • Execute work orders.
  • Maintain, troubleshoot, analyze, and repair equipment.
  • Troubleshoot motor and motor control problems.
  • Utilize computer software for various tasks.
  • Clean work area after each job.
  • Read and update technical manuals and drawings.
  • Perform pipe fitting and use various tools.
  • Identify and install parts of automated packaging equipment.
  • Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Respond appropriately to stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate self-motivated work behavior.
  • Report to the department when unable to come to work.

Requirements

  • Industrial maintenance work experience of at least 5 years.
  • Successful completion of a two-year college curriculum in technical areas or vocational school certificates.
  • Proficiency in maintaining, troubleshooting, analyzing, and repairing mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, and control systems.
  • Thorough knowledge of VFDs, PLCs, and servo motors.
  • Ability to repair machinery using drawings and manuals.
  • Skilled in using hand tools, power tools, and welding equipment.
  • Understanding of shaft alignment techniques and tools.
  • Ability to maintain mechanical drive systems and lubrication.
  • Pipe fitting skills.
  • Basic electrical troubleshooting experience.
  • Knowledge of variable frequency drive operations and motor control circuits.
  • Proficiency in following ladder logic for troubleshooting.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance

Additional Information

  • Rotating swing shifts.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
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How this job compares in Forest Park, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 40% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $21–$32/hr middle band drawn from 109 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 246 other active welding openings from 162 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.

The Clorox Company 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 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. 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. Multi Craft- Maintenance Technician-12hr (Rotating Swing Shifts) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.