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Overview

Milacron is looking for a Field Service Technician to join our team in TX and surrounding areas. The role involves providing quality installations, maintenance, and repairs of plastic injection/extrusion equipment with a focus on troubleshooting mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical components.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and repair plastic injection/extrusion equipment using online/offline applications.
  • Perform scheduled preventative maintenance activities on equipment.
  • Effectively interface with customers in repairing equipment as needed.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations regarding required repairs.
  • Install computer software programs to manufactured machines.
  • Load programs into equipment.
  • Utilize administrative tools such as Concur, Sales Force, and ADP.
  • Properly fill out startup sheets, calibration certificates, and PM documents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working with hydraulics, mechanics, electrics, controls, and/or similar skillsets.
  • Willingness to travel and work overtime as necessary.
  • Willingness to be out a week at a time, with the possibility of 2 weeks if required.
  • Willingness to train/extended stay in Batavia, Ohio.
  • Ability to read mechanical blueprints and electrical schematics.
  • Possess an active driver’s license and be free of any restrictions related to driving offenses.

Additional Information

  • $3000 sign-on bonus.
  • 100% travel but home on most weekends.
  • Per diem, company vehicle, and credit card provided.
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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Dallas, TX currently run a median of $39/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $29–$40/hr across 49 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 134 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 82 different employers. 40 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,132 other active welding openings from 498 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

Milacron currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (30), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $40/hr, Dallas at $39/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. Dallas is among them.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

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