Job Description

Overview

NextDeavor is seeking a Maintenance Tech to maintain and repair facility, process, and production equipment, ensuring production runs smoothly. This role offers an opportunity for contract employees to gain experience in a well-established corporation with potential for permanent employment.

Responsibilities

  • Support ongoing maintenance repairs for facility, operation, and process equipment
  • Instruct, direct, and set up work for other maintenance personnel
  • Perform preventative, predictive, and routine maintenance tasks
  • Respond to work orders through the PM program and champion lockout/tagout procedures
  • Test equipment performance using applicable instruments and check/repair pumps, fans, valves, and motors
  • Fabricate, weld, solder, and plumb with appropriate approvals
  • Adjust, repair, and replace electrical and electronic pneumatic relays
  • Track inventory of machine parts and supplies and reorder as needed
  • Maintain clean and orderly work area; follow 5S practices
  • Report production issues to the Supervisor and/or Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED (college or trade preferred); applicable technical certifications preferred
  • U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience maintaining machines in a manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of machinery installation, repair procedures, methods, and trade practices
  • Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to work with peers and lead by example
  • Mechanical aptitude with independent problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Ability to read work orders, interpret part drawings, schematics, and blueprints
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English
  • Flexible availability to work off shifts or weekends as needed

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Onsite role supporting manufacturing operations
  • 2nd shift schedule (3:30 PM–11:30 PM, Monday–Friday) with mandatory overtime as needed

Benefits

Health Insurance
Vision
Dental
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Mansfield, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $22/hr median for welding jobs in Mansfield, TX — toward the top of a $22–$22/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 100% 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 Mansfield, TX

We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Mansfield, TX right now, from 8 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 610 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mansfield, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (32), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (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 San Angelo at $39/hr, La Porte at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Mansfield, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Tech (#660d) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.