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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic role involves performing troubleshooting, repairs, and preventive maintenance on industrial equipment to ensure efficient operation. The position is with USG, a leader in producing innovative building products and systems since 1902.

Responsibilities

  • Comply with all safety and housekeeping rules.
  • Perform troubleshooting, repairs, and preventive maintenance on industrial equipment.
  • Become familiar with the plant work order system.
  • Adhere to plant storeroom procedures and operational rules.
  • Use hand and power tools, cranes/hoist, rigging equipment, welders, and fall restraint.
  • Work as part of a team to achieve required results.
  • Participate in plant safety and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Adapt to scheduling requirements including shift work and overtime.

Requirements

  • Ability to perform assigned repair and servicing tasks.
  • Willingness to work the assigned schedule.
  • Demonstrate understanding of all plant and departmental safety rules.
  • Meet the essential physical requirements of the position.
  • Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
  • Understand verbal and written instructions from plant supervision.
  • Maintain a set of personal tools as specified in the operator rate program.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 8-hour work schedule with mandatory overtime.
  • Day shift – 7a-3p, 2nd shift – 3p-11p, Night shift – 11p-7a.
  • Schedule: Monday - Friday with regular Saturday work.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, whose middle half runs $29–$39/hr across 41 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 116 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 70 different employers. 27 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,152 other active welding openings from 522 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

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

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (38), Zachry Group (29), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. Dallas 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. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.