Maintenance Technician II
Location
Columbus, NE
Wage
$27.03 – $33.03/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Location
Columbus, NE
Wage
$27.03 – $33.03/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
The Maintenance Technician II supports safe and reliable plant operations by maintaining and repairing production equipment and facility assets. This role involves performing routine preventative maintenance and troubleshooting mechanical or electrical issues with limited direction, contributing to food safety and equipment reliability.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting sits about 25% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska — toward the top of a $20–$27/hr middle band drawn from 30 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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.
Columbus, NE currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 46 other active welding openings from 35 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Columbus, or widen the search to Nebraska.
The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valmont Industries, Inc. (5), REV Group, Inc (3), and CNH (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
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 II figures were last recalculated when this page was built.