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Overview

This full-time Maintenance Technician III position offers an opportunity to work in a food manufacturing environment with popular retail brands. The role involves leading preventive maintenance and repairs of production machinery to ensure efficient plant operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of conveyor systems and production machinery.
  • Execute major equipment repairs, fabrication, construction, and installation projects.
  • Diagnose and resolve mechanical issues through detailed inspection and use of precision measuring tools.
  • Fabricate and maintain critical plant components using lathes, metal sheers, benders, and welding equipment.
  • Provide training and guidance to production teams on maintenance best practices.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED; two-year degree in specialized maintenance trade preferred.
  • 5+ years of related experience.
  • Operating knowledge of machine shop related equipment, CNC programming, and welding experience preferred.
  • Advanced mechanical knowledge, electrical and basic to advanced building skills.
  • Experience with high-speed manufacturing equipment.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Starting pay is $33.50 - $37 per hour.
  • Shift: 1st
  • Hours: Wednesday 12 pm - 6:30 pm, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 6 am to 6:30 pm.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Pasadena, TX, where the middle half runs $31–$82/hr across 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 27% 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 Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 30 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 712 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

CJ Schwan's currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (22), and Austin Industries (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. Pasadena is among them.

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