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Overview

Welcome to Ryerson, a leading provider of industrial metal products and services since 1842. As a Maintenance Mechanic, you will be responsible for maintaining plant and facilities equipment to ensure safe and efficient operations.

Responsibilities

  • Always works in a safe and efficient manner
  • Repairs and maintains plant equipment in an efficient manner on a daily basis
  • Creates and utilizes preventive maintenance program and keeps files up-to-date
  • Helps to eliminate machine downtime
  • Coordinates outside maintenance services as required
  • Orders parts as required to keep equipment operating in a safe/efficient basis
  • Follows all Company ISO policies and procedures
  • Keeps work areas clean and organized
  • All other duties as assigned or duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • 1-3 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing facility, preferably steel processing
  • Working knowledge of electricity, welding & burning, hydraulic repair
  • PLC knowledge and understanding
  • Machine repair, crane repair, preventive maintenance programs
  • Must be able to read blueprints and also order parts and supplies
  • Physical ability to pass physical requirements exam for vision, hearing, and mobility
  • Successful candidates will be enrolled in a registered apprenticeship program as part of their onboarding
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How this job compares in Norcross, GA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Georgia currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$38/hr across 125 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Norcross, GA

We're tracking 11 other active welding openings in Norcross, GA right now, from 5 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 365 other active welding openings from 207 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Norcross, or widen the search to Georgia.

Ryerson 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 (14), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and JCB North America (8). 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 Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $30/hr, and Marietta at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Norcross, GA

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