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Overview

The Timber Plant Maintenance Technician at West Fraser is responsible for a wide range of technical and mechanical maintenance duties, including diagnosing and repairing industrial equipment. West Fraser is a leading diversified wood products company, known for its commitment to employee development and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose causes of malfunctions by sight, sound, or actions of machinery and equipment.
  • Start, observe, operate, or otherwise activate equipment to detect or verify correction of malfunction.
  • Inspect, adjust, clean, or lubricate equipment as preventive maintenance.
  • Tear down, replace, repair, install, and assemble equipment, parts, components, and accessories.
  • Adjust mechanisms such as feed, speed, power input, or output.
  • Operate various 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 and equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
  • Work safely under high pressure situations.
  • Adjust tension on nuts and bolts or position parts using hand tools and measuring instruments.
  • Align machines and equipment using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb tools.
  • Assemble and install equipment using hand tools and power tools.
  • Layout mounting holes using measuring instruments and drill holes with power drill.
  • Replace defective parts of machines or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
  • Level bedplate and establish center line using straightedge, levels, and transit.
  • Dismantle machines using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
  • Attach moving parts and sub-assemblies to basic assembly unit using hand and power tools.
  • Remain current in technical changes or equipment designs by attending classes as needed.
  • Work rotating shifts, holidays, weekends, and overtime as scheduled or required.
  • Maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps.
  • Experience troubleshooting issues with bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, and conveyors.
  • Experience reading blueprints.
  • Two years or more of experience installing, troubleshooting, and repairing heavy equipment.
  • Experience with fabrication, cutting with a torch, and welding with an arc welder.
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations.
  • Safety is one of West Fraser’s core values.
  • Employees can expect a challenging, stable work environment with career development 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 $27/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina, where the middle half runs $24–$32/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% 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.

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. Timber Plant Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.