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Job Description

Overview

WM is seeking a Plant Maintenance Technician for the 3rd shift, offering a safer work environment, career progression, and stability for families. This role involves maintaining plant equipment and ensuring operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct preventive maintenance inspections and diagnose, repair, and rebuild major equipment and components.
  • Maintain the Daily Equipment Inspections backlog.
  • Adjust work procedures to meet production schedules and inform the Sr. Plant Maintenance Manager if additional work is needed.
  • Inspect the quality of third-party repairs and rebuilds.
  • Recommend improvements to enhance production, equipment performance, and product quality.
  • Multitask and manage multiple priorities with efficiency.
  • Respond to emergency breakdown service calls.
  • Perform work with limited supervision while maintaining high standards of performance.
  • Maintain a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate/OSHA standards.

Requirements

  • 2 years of relevant work experience.
  • Be over 18 years of age.
  • Legally eligible to work in the United States.
  • Ability to perform physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  • Successfully complete and pass pre-employment drug screen and physical.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Pension

Additional Information

  • Rotating days (4pm-4am) 2on 2off 3 on.
  • Work may include nights and weekends to meet operational needs.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
Pension
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $37/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA, where the middle half runs $30–$39/hr across 20 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 56 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 37 different employers. 22 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 277 other active welding openings from 178 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TradeWorx (7), Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) (7), and Crash Champions (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $37/hr and York at $25/hr. Philadelphia is among them.

Similar openings near Philadelphia, PA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial maintenance mechanic 3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.