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Overview

The Electro-Mechanical Technician at Keurig Dr Pepper will be responsible for installing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and improving process and packaging equipment to maximize production while adhering to high safety and quality standards. The role also involves improving maintenance procedures and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a safe and healthy environment, demonstrating safe behaviors at all times.
  • Focus on Good Manufacturing and Food Safety practices in all work.
  • Analyze mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic or electrical problems and make repairs through adjustments, defective parts replacement, or fabrication.
  • Wire moderately complex control circuits.
  • Teach basic mechanical skills to line operators to support autonomous maintenance, TPM functions, equipment set-up and center lining.
  • Fabricate, repair, and install hangers and all types of piping including hot/cold water, steam, process and condensate.
  • Quickly learn to weld and machine metals, plastics, and composites.
  • Fabricate or replicate minor pieces for the repair or replacement of parts on equipment.
  • Complete size changeovers and troubleshoot liquid fillers and packaging equipment.
  • Identify root causes of mechanical, electrical and control failures and resolve with effective problem-solving tools.
  • Troubleshoot and program minor changes in Allen Bradley PLC.
  • Generate productivity and continuous improvement ideas.
  • Demonstrate KDP values of Team First, Deliver Big, Think Bold, Being Fearless and Fair.

Requirements

  • 3 years’ experience maintaining, troubleshooting, & repairing mechanical & electrical/controls/PLC systems required.
  • Allen-Bradley systems experience required, including Rockwell FactoryTalk suite of software.
  • Filler equipment experience preferred.
  • Ability to read and understand complex instructions, prints, flowchart, block diagram, and schematics.
  • Ability to competently use and understand precision testing and diagnostic equipment.
  • Computer knowledge of Microsoft Office.
  • Ability to get along with others, be punctual, and follow instructions.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on a frequent basis.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 1st Shift; 6AM-2:30PM
  • Pay starting at $43.90 per hour, moving to $46.26 per hour in the quarter after their 6-month anniversary.
  • Benefits eligible day one.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 61% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$35/hr middle band drawn from 474 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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 Irving, TX

We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Irving, TX right now, from 14 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,395 other active welding openings from 683 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Irving, or widen the search to Texas.

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. currently has 2 other openings 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 Welding Shop in Austin, TX (26), Zachry Group (25), and Austin Industries (25). 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 Burleson at $40/hr, La Porte at $38/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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