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Overview

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is a Fortune 500 company focused on providing innovative packaging solutions. The Maintenance Technician role involves performing maintenance tasks on plant equipment to ensure operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose, repair, rebuild, or replace mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems on plant equipment.
  • Perform preventive maintenance activities and respond to breakdown calls in a production environment.
  • Work as part of a team to ensure safety and efficiency in maintenance tasks.

Requirements

  • Must attend job fair to be considered.
  • 2+ years of experience in troubleshooting and repairing industrial machinery.
  • A technical degree in the mechanical or electrical trades is a plus.
  • Be authorized to work in the US.
  • Experience in the corrugated packaging or printing industry is a plus.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • The production schedule is 3 shifts, and technicians are placed on shifts according to plant needs and seniority.
  • Paid training is provided to help technicians advance through skill levels.
  • Technicians supply their own basic hand tools, with PCA providing a tool stipend and all special and heavy tools.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, whose middle half runs $28–$39/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 61% 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 127 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 78 different employers. 52 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 611 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.

Packaging Corporation of America 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 (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.

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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.