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Overview

Flowers Foods, Inc. is a leading producer of packaged bakery goods in the United States, with a focus on crafting moments of joy through its products. The plumber position involves performing maintenance and installation tasks on the physical plant, equipment, and machinery, ensuring product safety and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Performs assigned preventive maintenance tasks.
  • Performs scheduled maintenance on plant equipment and machinery.
  • Responds to and corrects equipment stoppage/mechanical breakdown.
  • Troubleshoots and repairs/replaces worn/defective parts, motors, control devices, etc.
  • Operates machine shop equipment and makes required parts when necessary.
  • Maintains cleanliness of work area.
  • Practices and complies with all Company policies and procedures.
  • Performs other duties as directed by supervision.

Requirements

  • One or more years experience as Production Operator or Technician and/or formal training or experience.
  • Experience in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning; Welding, Electronics, Electrical repairs, Industrial Equipment installations, alignment, start-up repairs, etc.
  • Associate Degree in Electronics/Electrical Technology and/or equivalent formal training and work experience.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 26% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA — toward the top of a $30–$45/hr middle band drawn from 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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 Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 34 different employers. 16 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 324 other active welding openings from 215 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

Tasty Baking Company currently has 1 other opening live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Greene Tweed (9), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr and York at $27/hr. Philadelphia 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. plumber figures were last recalculated when this page was built.