Industrial Maintenance Technician
Location
Forest Park, GA
Wage
$28 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
Location
Forest Park, GA
Wage
$28 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 9, 2026
WITRON is seeking a skilled Industrial Maintenance Technician to maintain a state-of-the-art automated material handling system in a fast-paced distribution center. The ideal candidate will prioritize safety, maximize system performance, and excel in both electrical and mechanical tasks.
At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 18% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 177 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% 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.
Forest Park, GA currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 444 other active welding openings from 281 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Forest Park, or widen the search to Georgia.
The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Marathon (10), Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (7), and Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (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 Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $33/hr, and Conyers at $31/hr. Forest Park is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.