Job Description

Overview

ATS is a company founded in 1985 with a presence in the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, specializing in Industrial Maintenance to enhance factory operations. The Traveling CNC Maintenance Technician role involves expert-level maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of manufacturing equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform expert level break-fix and preventative maintenance on devices.
  • Identify and source parts, supplies, and repair items as necessary.
  • Independently perform maintenance as per industry standards and create maintenance standards.
  • Direct customer counterparts in maintenance optimization and preventative maintenance processes.
  • Setup and operate multiple machining operations including lathe, drill press, and grinder.
  • Conform to customer contractor codes of conduct and safety processes.
  • Document work performed in service reports and management systems.
  • Provide assistance to lower level technicians and leadership to project teams.
  • Alter, troubleshoot, and analyze complex control systems.
  • Utilize advanced maintenance technologies to collect equipment performance data.
  • Conduct on-the-job training and lead technical programs for development.
  • Follow all safety related policies and identify unsafe behaviors.

Requirements

  • High School Graduate or equivalent (GED).
  • Associates degree with a Technical focus and 12 years of related experience, or 15 years of experience in the industry.
  • Comprehensive understanding of electrical, mechanical, fluid power, and control systems.
  • Ability to use basic hand tools, specialized tools, and programming software.
  • Extensive travel required (Local, National, International).

Benefits

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

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $51/hr, this posting sits about 46% above the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX — toward the top of a $28–$40/hr middle band drawn from 48 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 85% 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 124 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 73 different employers. 50 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 596 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.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (29), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). 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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Irving at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

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