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Overview

The Manufacturing Equipment Technician role involves a wide variety of technical duties related to diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining industrial equipment. West Fraser, a leading diversified wood products company, emphasizes safety, internal promotions, and employee development.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose causes of malfunctions using technical electronic diagnostics and precision instruments.
  • Start and operate equipment to verify correction of malfunctions.
  • Inspect, adjust, clean, and lubricate equipment as part of preventive maintenance.
  • Dismantle, repair, and assemble equipment and components.
  • Adjust mechanisms such as feed, speed, and power input/output.
  • Operate mechanical and electronic test equipment.
  • Repair and maintain industrial equipment including conveying systems and major machine centers.
  • Read and understand drawings and printed instructions.
  • Move machinery using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
  • Align machines and equipment using various tools.
  • Assemble and install equipment using hand and power tools.
  • Replace defective parts and adjust clearances and alignment.
  • Level bedplate and establish center line using tools.
  • Dismantle machines using hand tools.
  • Remain current with technical changes by attending classes.
  • Work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, and overtime as required.
  • Adhere to safety rules and regulations.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Two years or more of experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing heavy equipment.
  • Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps.
  • Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors.
  • Experience reading blueprints.
  • Experience with fabrication, cutting with a torch, and welding with an arc welder.
  • Basic understanding of pumps, sheaves, sprockets, and machine centers.
  • Self-starter who can work safely under high pressure.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Safety is a core value at West Fraser.
  • The successful candidate should be interested in future growth opportunities.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Seaboard, NC

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina, whose middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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 Seaboard, NC

Seaboard, NC currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 157 other active welding openings from 82 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Seaboard, or widen the search to North Carolina.

West Fraser currently has 48 other openings live in North Carolina, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are West Fraser (48), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (4), and Carrier Global (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Seaboard, NC

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