Job Description

Overview

Concorde Battery Georgia Corporation manufactures aircraft batteries and is looking for a driven candidate to join the pasting department as an Assembler. The position involves fulfilling daily production requirements and offers hands-on training, with opportunities for overtime.

Responsibilities

  • Follow written and oral instructions.
  • Adjust pasting machine to control quality standards.
  • Stack grids onto machine feeder.
  • Offload plates from conveyor.
  • Adjust temperature on pasting oven.
  • Operate curing ovens.
  • Inspect and clean plates.
  • Stand for long periods of time.
  • Maneuver up to 80 pounds.
  • Reach, carry, bend/stoop, push/pull.
  • Wear a respirator and other required personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Comply with all safety requirements and participate in safety training/practices.
  • Maintain a clean work area and follow company hygiene guidelines.
  • Use small hand tools.
  • Communicate to supervisor when detecting defective materials.
  • Read numbers and letters.
  • Work with and around hazardous materials.
  • Work in hot and cold temperatures.

Requirements

  • Basic High School Diploma or GED.
  • Read, write, and speak English.
  • Punctual and reliable.
  • Must complete pre-employment physical/drug screen.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Monday - Thursday; 5:30am-4:00pm.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Austell, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 39% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 177 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 2% 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 Austell, GA

We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Austell, GA right now, from 8 different 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. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Austell, 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Assembler - Battery Plate - Day Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.