Job Description

Overview

As a Maintenance Technician at Linde Inc., you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing preventive and corrective maintenance on mechanical systems, while also supporting various maintenance activities. Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company dedicated to providing high-quality solutions and technologies across various industries.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, coordinate, and execute preventive and corrective maintenance, including turnaround planning and cost estimates for mechanical work.
  • Maintain and troubleshoot rotating equipment, perform precision mechanical work, and support pressure relief device maintenance.
  • Assist with root cause analysis (RCA), compliance inspections, and resolve high-impact issues with urgency and integrity.
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule and support purchasing and maintaining plant materials, equipment, and consumables inventory.
  • Work in both office and field environments, including varying weather conditions and accessing elevated equipment using ladders, scaffolding, man-lifts, and crane baskets.
  • Occasionally work overtime and respond to callouts on nights, weekends, and holidays.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: East Chicago, IN, United States
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
PTO
401k

How this job compares in East Chicago, IN

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Indiana currently run a median of $31/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$42/hr across 12 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 East Chicago, IN

East Chicago, IN currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 58 other active welding openings from 37 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in East Chicago, or widen the search to Indiana.

The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TEAM, Inc. (7), Core & Main (3), and Atlas Copco Group (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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