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Overview

As a Maintenance Technician Class C at Nestlé, you will be responsible for maintaining all plant systems, ensuring machine reliability, and contributing to process improvements in a sustainable and state-of-the-art facility that produces a variety of pet food brands.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain plant systems including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and instrumentation.
  • Troubleshoot electrical control systems including motors and PLCs.
  • Use test equipment such as multimeters, megohmmeters, and process simulators.
  • Repair gear reducers, belt and screw conveyors, chain elevators, and packaging equipment.
  • Maintain wastewater systems, boiler operations, cooling towers, and general building needs.
  • Complete predictive maintenance such as vibration analysis and oil sample collection.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • 1+ years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing, technical, warehouse, industrial, military, or related environment OR a 2-year technical degree completed.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Must be open to working all shifts.
  • Must be willing to work nights and weekends.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Fairburn, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 30% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $22–$36/hr middle band drawn from 134 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% 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 Fairburn, GA

Fairburn, GA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 217 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Georgia.

Nestlé Purina North America currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (10), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (9), and JCB North America (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marietta at $42/hr, Forest Park at $36/hr, and Atlanta at $31/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 Class C (Multi-Craft) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.