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Job Description

Overview

Silgan Containers is seeking industrial Mechanics for their Hammond manufacturing facility, offering a high-paying career with excellent benefits and opportunities for advancement in a stable environment.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and optimize mechanical systems by troubleshooting, repairing, and improving mechanical components on high speed can lines equipment.
  • Operate and maintain can line equipment, making necessary adjustments to ensure smooth operations.
  • Use precision measuring tools to ensure components meet quality standards.
  • Monitor production flow and resolve issues to prevent disruptions.
  • Diagnose mechanical and quality-related problems and implement hands-on solutions.
  • Contribute ideas for enhancing safety, productivity, quality, and cost efficiency.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED or 2-year Trade School preferred.
  • 5 plus years of mechanical manufacturing experience preferred.
  • Familiarity with precision measuring tools.
  • Willingness to operate and maintain Silgan's can lines by performing and documenting quality checks.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Starting pay of $34.27 per hour plus shift differential.
  • Shifts: Train on 1st shift, then work 2nd or 3rd shift.
  • $5,000 hiring bonus.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Hammond, IN

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 18% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana — toward the top of a $23–$31/hr middle band drawn from 95 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 86% 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 Hammond, IN

Hammond, IN currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 172 other active welding openings from 110 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Hammond, or widen the search to Indiana.

The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are NCW (36), Aerotek (6), and SMS group (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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