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Overview

The Maintenance Technician position at PBNA involves repairing and installing production equipment, performing preventative maintenance, and diagnosing equipment malfunctions. The role requires working in environments with heat, noise, gas, and chemicals, and may involve weekend or holiday work.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventative maintenance on production equipment
  • Repair all production equipment as needed
  • Perform breakdown analysis
  • Perform general housekeeping
  • Upgrade production lines with new equipment/technology
  • Work with outside contractors on assigned line
  • Change line for package changeovers
  • Comply with GMP, safety, and audit standards
  • Document work schedule and tasks completed

Requirements

  • Must be 18 years or older
  • Pass technical assessment addressing job-critical maintenance knowledge areas
  • Experience with mechanical systems such as gear boxes, chains, and motors
  • Experience with product manuals for repairs
  • Experience troubleshooting mechanical breakdowns
  • Experience reading mechanical drawings

Additional Information

  • Shift: Evenings
  • Must have own hand tools
  • Position requires continuous work near heat, noise, gas, and chemicals
  • Frequent lifting, climbing, standing, walking, crouching, squatting, bending, and kneeling
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How this job compares in Arlington, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 34% 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 81% 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 Arlington, TX

We're tracking 34 other active welding openings in Arlington, TX right now, from 20 different employers. 17 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,395 other active welding openings from 682 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Arlington, or widen the search to Texas.

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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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.