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Overview

Dessert Holdings is seeking a Maintenance Tech for the 1st shift to support manufacturing operations in creating premium desserts. This role involves maintaining equipment and ensuring operational efficiency while working in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and repair electrical and mechanical defects.
  • Participate as a Maintenance Lead for assigned area teams to support Line Centric Teams.
  • Effectively complete assigned Preventative Maintenance Plans as scheduled to eliminate unplanned downtime.
  • Participate in RCA on equipment and process failures to provide insight to failure and suggest corrective actions.
  • Train operators on maintenance techniques when called to troubleshoot or repair equipment.
  • Complete preventative maintenance and other reliability tasks, assist in diagnostics, repair and rebuild machines.
  • Document all Maintenance work activity within CMMS System.
  • Install, align and adjust mechanical power transmission components.
  • Operate in the workplace in a safe and effective manner and adhere to mechanical, fluid power, electrical power and environmental rules and regulations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Industrial Mechanical experience or two-year technical degree preferred.
  • Proficiency in MS Office and basic PC skills.
  • Must be able to read, write and speak English; preferred if can read, write and speak Spanish.
  • Must be able to successfully complete HACCP Certification.
  • Must have Forklift License or be able to complete required training within 90 days of hire.
  • Possess mathematical skills.
  • Ability to deal tactfully and courteously interdepartmentally as well as with co-workers and vendors.
  • Working knowledge of ovens, bakery equipment, and packaging equipment preferred.
  • Completion of AIB Bakery Equipment training course is helpful.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance

Additional Information

  • Work hours are Monday - Thursday from 5AM - 5PM.
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business.
  • Must be willing to work overtime including weekends if necessary.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
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How this job compares in Kennesaw, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $21–$35/hr middle band drawn from 175 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% 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 Kennesaw, GA

We're tracking 11 other active welding openings in Kennesaw, GA right now, from 8 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 440 other active welding openings from 279 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Kennesaw, 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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