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Job Description

Overview

The Industrial Mechanic is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and installing mechanical equipment used in citrus juice processing and production operations. This position ensures all plant machinery operates safely, efficiently, and reliably to minimize downtime and support production goals.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on processing equipment.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical issues in machinery.
  • Repair and install mechanical equipment.
  • Ensure machinery operates safely and efficiently.
  • Minimize downtime to support production goals.
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How this job compares in Auburndale, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $22–$30/hr across 105 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 57% 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 Auburndale, FL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Auburndale, FL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 223 other active welding openings from 140 employers. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (16), Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (13), and Aerotek (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Jacksonville at $30/hr, Cocoa at $30/hr, and Orlando at $28/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Auburndale, FL

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