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Overview

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, committed to excellence and investing in talent to create a performance-based culture. The Black Tea Mechanic role involves maintaining and improving packaging machines for tea products while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on high-speed packaging equipment.
  • Operate power tools and shop machinery for repairs and equipment improvements.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical issues and collaborate with managers and production teams.
  • Read and interpret equipment manuals, SOPs, technical drawings, and blueprints.
  • Assemble and disassemble mechanical components including bearings and gears.
  • Follow all company safety requirements, GMP standards, and quality expectations.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on equipment reliability.

Requirements

  • One to two years of hands-on maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
  • Experience maintaining high-speed packaging equipment in consumer food products or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  • Experience with overhead box conveyor systems and bulk delivery and storage equipment.
  • Ability to use precision measuring tools including calipers and micrometers.
  • Knowledge of the metric system and common units of measurement.
  • Ability to read and comprehend machine manuals and technical drawings.
  • Experience assembling and disassembling mechanical components.
  • Knowledge of GMPs, Lockout/Tagout procedures, and workplace safety practices.
  • Food manufacturing experience, machine shop experience, or a technical degree/certification is preferred.
  • Electrical troubleshooting knowledge is considered an asset.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits program
  • Enrollment in wellness and employee assistance programs
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a full-time permanent role on the 2nd shift, operating Monday through Friday with some Saturdays.
  • Overtime may be available depending on business needs.
  • The role requires standing and walking for 8-12 hours per shift and lifting up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits program
Enrollment in wellness and employee assistance programs
PTO
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How this job compares in Marietta, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 31% below the $42/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA, where the middle half runs $28–$44/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Marietta, GA

We're tracking 22 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 17 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 217 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Marietta, or widen the search to Georgia.

TreeHouse Foods 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. Marietta is among them.

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